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hmm ok, I dont have that level of logging enabled otherwise the logs grow at 100s gigs/day.

Think it was a disk issue. Cleared up some 7TB of space, so hopefully it should be permanently fixed.

But in general we suggest you upload directly to our servers. Otherwise once those image hosters go out of business all the images disapear on our site (as you can see by many of the early pages of each topic)

ususally the hoster gives you bbcode (what you posted) which no longer works as its considered legacy, and "normal" html, which shoudl work.

Thanks for letting me know, ill investigate this weekend.

Welcome, and yes we welcome all content as long as its not duplicates and the other members get value from it.

We implemented some changes, so hopefully it will slow down the flood. Let us know if anyone gets through. Thanks @anon2222

No, we dont have that ability. If you tell us what thread needs to be changed we can try, but I think it only gives us 5-10 images to chose from by default.

test 123

We were doing some security patches, probably was offline for 10mins or so. Let me know if you keep seeing issues.

done, thx

done thx

unfortunantly IPB has very limited settings when it comes to that. I will try to come up wiht a custom plugin at some point to see if we can get it to stop. Or maybe even a simple GPT that says does this look spammy or not.

slow?

fixed

I bumped it up significnalty. Please let me know if you are still hitting limits.

Just temproary but shold have only affected vietnam. Let me see what i can do to fix that.

ok please try to grab a screenshot next time and we can try and figure it out.

what error you getting?

You are the Vietnamese botnet?!

Yea pretty much, a JS check from time to time.

Load still climbing at 36.21. The embed pipeline is NOT running, so it's not contributing. Here's the diagnosis: It's bot traffic — distributed Vietnamese botnet What's happening: - php-fpm socket is completely exhausted — every slot is busy, new requests get "Resource temporarily unavailable" - Hundreds of unique Vietnamese IPs (113.16x.x.x, 14.1xx.x.x, 123.xx.x.x — VNPT/Viettel residential ranges) are scraping /main/topic/ pages with deep pagination - Mixed in with some DigitalOcean VPS IPs (146.190, 24.144, 167.99, 134.209) - Three major spikes today: 08:10 (worst — 15K errors/3min), 13:55, and now - All requests have referrer https://www.bellazon.com/ — faked - DB is fine (all queries completing in 0s), this is purely request volume overwhelming php-fpm Not the problem: - MariaDB queries are fast, no locks - Embed pipeline is not running - No slow query backlog Immediate options: 1. Cloudflare WAF rule — block/challenge Vietnam country code (VN) on topic pages, or rate-limit per IP 2. Nginx rate limiting — add limit_req_zone on the real IP for /main/topic/ endpoints 3. Block the DigitalOcean ASN at Cloudflare (AS14061) — no legitimate users come from DO VPS IPs I dont know why the bots are going crazy these days, we shut them down. Lets see where tehy pop up next.

Yes, that is stored in the DB. So as long as you actually saw it post and didnt throw and upload error it’s guaranteed to be there.