Possible DDOS attack / bot on a rampage

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Possible DDOS attack / bot on a rampage

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Hi all,

Today there was an issue with the site, too long to explain here but essentially the same as the issue described here:
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2493956

I've tried to mitigate it as much as possible but you may get a "forum unavailable" message sometimes, my apologies, I am actively still working on a better solution. You may also see that annoying Cloudflare "prove you're a human" message which I personally despise but hopefully it's only a temporary thing.

Still not sure if it's due to a deliberate DDOS, unintentional DDOS (ex, spidering bot or some kind of script out of control) or what but it's damn annoying.
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Possible DDOS attack / bot on a rampage

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I'm not sure, if it's related, but last weak when I tried to visit, instead 'o the index, there was was a message that I was banned 'til Apr 7 'cause my IP was in spammer list. Thou can look how much I've been spammin'.
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Possibly related, I'm noticing that session timeout is really fast somehow, I find myself having to re-authenticate every time I post something.
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Very much DDOS going on recently I think - keep getting messages aimed at other spam-IP:s I think.

Edit: I noticed my timezone was off in my profile, possibly since last update of the forum - I fixed that, but still issues with 'permanently banned IP' messages.
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