I've been noticing seemingly random jumps in our 'Most Online' stat on the forums, and I've been a bit suspicious of the figures it has been showing. Today I noticed it had leapt dramatically to a totally ridiculous figure - prior to the jumps starting to happen, the highest figure I trusted was 370. I've just tried rebuilding the caches using the 'something is wrong' feature under Support in the ACP, but this didn't make a difference. At this rate, Most Online will exceed our total member count soon! (Yes, I know this is possible if enough guests visit at once, but clearly, something is wrong here.)

Any ideas?

Kev

Did you have a DDoS attack lately? That could explain the huge increase.

You can edit that block to enter the number you think is real.

One of my sites hit 90K and it was because someone wanted their thread to have XXXX number of views.  I guess they paid for some bot to hit that thread and make it really popular.

Probably what @Adriano Faria said above.

13 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

Did you have a DDoS attack lately? That could explain the huge increase.

You can edit that block to enter the number you think is real.

If we did, then it wasn't very successful! I don't recall (and no one reported) any downtime that could be attributable to such an attack. But you're probably right - other than a glitch in the forum software, this is the only reasonable explanation.

Kev