[3.3.x] Support Forum • High Bot Traffic
Over the last few years, our forum has been receiving ever-increasing bot traffic. AS I type, we have more than 6000 bots probing the site. Needless to say, this creates slowness for all users or a...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: High Bot Traffic
Already several big topics on thisviewtopic.php?t=2662519viewtopic.php?t=2662066viewtopic.php?t=2659822Statistics: Posted by KevC — Fri Jul 11, 2025 8:51 am
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Re: Localhost and cache
I have noticed first pageload up to 13 sec on localhost after cache is purged.Not a big issue. Just a little annoying.Any solutions?Do you run the localhost / xampp or other local software on an SSD?...
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phpBB Discussion • Re: Dealing with bot traffic
If the bot has not been added to the bot list it is certainly an issue but problems being encountered by most are from unnamed bots. They are just using a browsers user agent so there is not much you...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: Will phpBB Work with Hiawatha?
Okay. So, I hover my mouse over the Install tab, at the bottom left of the screen, it appears it is a link to a file called install inside the install/app.php folder but the app.php is a file and not...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: Reset
Explain more.Reset what to what?Statistics: Posted by KevC — Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:26 am
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: Send post
Once again, when I post, it takes a long time to load, and it takes 10 seconds for the post to actually be sent. How do I fix this problem? So the post is sent immediately. Please help.Statistics:...
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[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: What is going on? Is this some kind of widespread...
Hi there,Two months ago same problem started at my website. There are only few (2-3) active users at the forum and there were 2-3 requests by bots per second.I thought that the bots/guests are the...
View ArticleExtensions in Development • Re: [3.3][RC] Pageloader
Try this:open pageloader.cssFind: Code: margin-bottom: 20px;and simply replace that line with: Code: margin: 10px;Statistics: Posted by Stoker 4.0 — Mon Jul 14, 2025 12:45 pm
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: (Solved) Can't login to freshly installed board
... so I figured I'll clear my cookie cache... Did you mean cookies and data?Clearing cookies logs you out but your internet cache remains and data will be re-used if appropriate.Statistics: Posted by...
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[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: How many cache files?
I would like to thank everyone for their help. I believe I have found the culprit, which was indeed an extension and more specifically the SEO metadata extension. I have disabled it and for the time...
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