Re: Why do I have to hit the back button twice?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lowlight</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ggmanning</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I use two sites regularly that are larger and smaller than SH. This site has more issues than the other ones combined.....not even close. I often get failure to load, back button double click or just screwy glitches with this site. I rarely go a day without the site just being non-accessible for short periods. This is across several machines at home and work. My back button is also back to single click with no changes on my end today. </div></div>
The only change we made to the site is, we removed Google's ability to index the site as they were a large part of our blackouts. We were well aware that Googlebot put a large strain on the site at various times, and because they eliminated our ability to manually adjust how much they indexed, we were forced to block them.
As far as other sites, size is not the issue, software is. We have been using UBB Threads since the beginning it has known issues, especially with Windows and IE based users. Short of completely abandoning UBB for a newer and different forum software, we are at the mercy of UBBs glitches and problems. UBB has changed hands and has also promised new software, but they are woefully behind in that promise.
This week I decided to double the site's capacity, we are currently on 3 servers and will be on 6 hopefully by Sept 5th, that should help. Still there is no getting around the fact we face DDoS attacks on a daily basis and fight off hack attempts on a weekly basis... The chinese have no interest beyond any of the other hack attempts that have landed. We have blocked hacks from Italy, Brazil, Russia, and now China, those are the ones we have traced. In a site like this, fighting hackers and malicious web code is a daily fight.
The 1 minute outages, are a result of the DDoS attacks combined with the Googlebot indexing. When the two meet, it knocks the site out of short period of time until the system automatically resets. We have automated responses set up, those responses act, which is why it blackouts. Removing Google has minimized that, and the fact things are working today and weren't yesterday, that is a known UBB / Internet Explorer incompatibility issue. Out of our control.
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Apologies for seeming dense, but I dont understand the reason the Chinnknese want to hack a site like Snipers Hide. American Express, Bank of America, I can understand, but most of us arent posting financial info on her.
