Forum issues are discussed here

[lejonklou]

Thank you Peter@57m!

I’ve made some changes and am thankful for all feedback.

[lejonklou]

We were offline for 5 hours this morning due to our host shutting us down because of ”too many bots”.

Now resolved. Apologies for the inconvenience!

[mrco99]

Ah, so that was the cause.
I wonder why the bots like your forum so much....?

[lejonklou]

Yes, we've been wondering that too.

[springwood64]

I notice Hifikabin today mentioned taking action because of bots.

https://hifikabin.me.uk/viewtopic.php?p=136899#p136899

[matthias]

Fredrik,
some audo forums enable functions like SEARCH only for members, guests can not use it.
Would this be helpful?

BTW, for this post I had to log-in twice, the second time after typing and it was gone, annoying!

[lejonklou]

The bots seem to love HiFi!

Thank you Matthias, we already have very limited search for guests (only one at a time and only once every 30 seconds). Members can search more freely.

I will soon be moving the whole site to a new host. It’s time to rebuild the configurations from the ground up from a more stable platform. These bot attacks and logout problems are annoying. It seems the majority of members is unaffected, but some are having constant trouble and that’s just unacceptable.

[matthias]

I will soon be moving the whole site to a new host. It’s time to rebuild the configurations from the ground up from a more stable platform.

GREAT !!!