That Vauxhall Corsa 1.0 Semi-Automatic is back in town tonight. Reliability is not the problem ...

TRying to edit on the board right now is like:

https://youtu.be/NR_wTvd1cGU

Enter......wait.....wait.....wait.....loading.....wait......wait.....wait....loa- ding....repeat.

Unpleasant edit work for admins right now, too.

You're not kidding!

Since yesterday the script for cleaning unused pics is running, which does not make it faster.
When checking the logs, the site is more browsed by bots than humans. People only use Google but there are hundreds of different engines that index the web, that's crazy.

Are we under Russian cyber attack?

Maybe, disguised as crawler bots then

Ugh! I made the mistake of starting to edit things and now the site is crawling.

Whatever you just did, the site is moving faster now, Thanks!

Whoops! Spoke too soon. Looks like the trawlers are back!

I didn't do anything, except asking Google to crawl slower on the site a few days ago, but Google is not the only one, so the others still come from time to time It seems that not many respect the rule in robots.txt to ask only one page every 10 seconds...

Slow again!

No rush, no rush, no rush...

Main site is extremely slow tonight.

Suddenly got very slow right noe, 9:57pm EST

Slow again this evening, 6:09 EST

Definitely - the Vauxhall Corsa 1.0 Semi-Automatic has returned.

Does it work better since last week? (as there were no complain since then)
If so, it seems that the few times I reboot the server after an upgrade it works better.
Maybe it is a coincidence, or maybe a reboot once every few months can help...
Or just less bots after the downtime, if they think that the site crashed (as the upgrade took about 20 min) and stop coming for a while

It's just me or when I'm refreshing the page after resizing a picture it doesn't appear with the new scaled size as usual? It's happening right now.
Same when replacing a picture.