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The web site has been extremely slow this morning with pages struggling to load. That was up until just now when it suddenly burst back into life.

Has management been tinkering?

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Stephen wrote: 26 Oct 2018, 12:19
The web site has been extremely slow this morning with pages struggling to load. That was up until just now when it suddenly burst back into life.

Has management been tinkering?
That'll teach you not to upset my best mate David.......thinking about it David why don't you turn him off completely :thumbup:
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No problem for those of us who haven't dissed the Chief Plod.

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Are you using Chrome as your browser Stephen? I do and over the last few days it has been erratically sluggish, if you get my drift, it's either Chrome or a recent update of Windows 10 which always seem to create more problems than it fixes.
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Windows 7 John. All working fine again now.

I think Onelife lent David 20p for the meter until he can get to the bank :D

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It was slow earlier today but it was nothing I was doing - I suspect the hosts were "tinkering"
towny44 wrote: 26 Oct 2018, 14:02
Are you using Chrome as your browser Stephen? I do and over the last few days it has been erratically sluggish, if you get my drift, it's either Chrome or a recent update of Windows 10 which always seem to create more problems than it fixes.
John - there are many problems at the moment with Chrome not behaving as it should, not only with this software but generally.

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david63 wrote: 26 Oct 2018, 16:08
It was slow earlier today but it was nothing I was doing - I suspect the hosts were "tinkering"
towny44 wrote: 26 Oct 2018, 14:02
Are you using Chrome as your browser Stephen? I do and over the last few days it has been erratically sluggish, if you get my drift, it's either Chrome or a recent update of Windows 10 which always seem to create more problems than it fixes.
John - there are many problems at the moment with Chrome not behaving as it should, not only with this software but generally.
David, do you know if they intend to, indeed can, fix it?
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towny44 wrote: 26 Oct 2018, 16:28
David, do you know if they intend to, indeed can, fix it?
Not a clue - I very rarely use Chrome

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towny44 wrote: 26 Oct 2018, 14:02
Are you using Chrome as your browser Stephen? I do and over the last few days it has been erratically sluggish, if you get my drift, it's either Chrome or a recent update of Windows 10 which always seem to create more problems than it fixes.
Thanks for posting that, towny. I thought it was something I had done as it has happened a couple of evenings. I usually just assume that it is me who has messed up (actually it normally is me - my son calls me a numpty when it comes to computers).

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It seems to be slow again …... :thumbdown:
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Had a couple of error messages this afternoon. The first was 'THIS PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED'.

The second was this.

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it was a tad cold last night, maybe the valves took longer to warm up.
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Fire lighters required....perhaps :D

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Web pages currently struggling to load. I have just had to login again for the second time within a week.

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Stephen wrote: 30 Oct 2018, 18:16
Web pages currently struggling to load. I have just had to login again for the second time within a week.
Done exactly the same to me just now Stephen, well that was after taking an eternity to think about it.
Come on David sort out your platforms host.
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Is it time to empty our message pages?
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Good plan, I have deleted all bar one page of my Inbox and Sent Folders … it seems to have speeded up already :wave:
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oldbluefox wrote: 31 Oct 2018, 14:29
Is it time to empty our message pages?
Unfortunately that will not help. It appears that the site is being inundated by spam bots

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Still very slow, I gave up yesterday as everything was taking so long :(

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david63 wrote: 01 Nov 2018, 10:42
oldbluefox wrote: 31 Oct 2018, 14:29
Is it time to empty our message pages?
Unfortunately that will not help. It appears that the site is being inundated by spam bots
Just what is a spam bot and who is inundatng us with them, and why?
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towny44 wrote: 01 Nov 2018, 15:20
Just what is a spam bot
An automated program that keeps trying to access the site - they are fairly common and most gets these attacks from time to time.
towny44 wrote: 01 Nov 2018, 15:20
who is inundatng us with them
Someone somewhere in China
towny44 wrote: 01 Nov 2018, 15:20
and why
That is the twenty four thousand dollar question - because they are idiots with nothing better to do with their time.

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towny44 wrote: 01 Nov 2018, 15:20
david63 wrote: 01 Nov 2018, 10:42
oldbluefox wrote: 31 Oct 2018, 14:29
Is it time to empty our message pages?
Unfortunately that will not help. It appears that the site is being inundated by spam bots
Just what is a spam bot and who is inundatng us with them, and why?
Glad you asked John as I hadn't got a clue either :thumbup:

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Stephen wrote: 01 Nov 2018, 15:51
towny44 wrote: 01 Nov 2018, 15:20
david63 wrote: 01 Nov 2018, 10:42
oldbluefox wrote: 31 Oct 2018, 14:29
Is it time to empty our message pages?
Unfortunately that will not help. It appears that the site is being inundated by spam bots
Just what is a spam bot and who is inundatng us with them, and why?
Glad you asked John as I hadn't got a clue either :thumbup:
Well even though we now know there seems little we can do.
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I did find a web page telling how to kill the spam bot program, if that is definitely the cause, but I'm sure David is on the case. :thumbup:
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I have every confidence in David sorting it out :)

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