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October 12, 2024Oct 12 Community Expert spiking up to 100 regularly which never happened until yesterday You would want to ask your hosting provider what changed. It may be they updated something or you’re getting too much traffic than your server can handle. If nothing was changed in the software, it shouldn’t be changing like this really as it’s the same exact queries running these.
October 12, 2024Oct 12 Author From what I can tell so far it’s stopped the whole site being unresponsive and cpu being stuck at 100% for long periods of time I spoke too soon, everything’s collapsed again
October 12, 2024Oct 12 Author For comparison the past two weeks this is where the processor usually is
October 12, 2024Oct 12 Author It's worse now with query cache off and it was already a complete mess Edited October 12, 2024Oct 12 by marklcfc
October 12, 2024Oct 12 Community Expert You would want to ask your hosting provider what changed. It may be they updated something or you’re getting too much traffic than your server can handle. If nothing was changed in the software, it shouldn’t be changing like this really as it’s the same exact queries running these.
October 13, 2024Oct 13 FWIW I experienced CPU spikes on my community and it turned out that I had a lot of bot traffic (looking at you, Bing) causing long-running SQL queries that would max out the allowable connections, and everything would grind to a halt. I blocked a bunch of known bots (and AI scrapers) and the issue was resolved.
October 13, 2024Oct 13 Author FWIW I experienced CPU spikes on my community and it turned out that I had a lot of bot traffic (looking at you, Bing) causing long-running SQL queries that would max out the allowable connections, and everything would grind to a halt. I blocked a bunch of known bots (and AI scrapers) and the issue was resolved. That's reminded me I had this kind of thing happening 2/3 years ago and worked out it was a specific bot which I blocked onto my robots txt but about a month ago I reverted it back to the default Invision. I've put those bots back on my custom robots.txt now, really hoping that stops this
October 13, 2024Oct 13 Community Expert I thought it was fixed but it’s started to happen again 😔😔 You'd want to check with your hosting provider of the IP addresses coming in and what they are. If it's malicious or not obeying your robots.txt, you'll want to block it at the network/server level.
October 13, 2024Oct 13 Author Seems to be alot coming from Tencent but don't know how to block it in robots. I've turned on this in Cloudflare to see if it helps
October 13, 2024Oct 13 Community Expert You’d want to block in CloudFlare or have your hosting provider block them on the server.
October 13, 2024Oct 13 Community Expert You would need to contact the corresponding provider for assistance
October 13, 2024Oct 13 Author I've tried blocking it on cloudflare but its made no difference, just don't know what to do I'm just guessing Edited October 13, 2024Oct 13 by marklcfc
October 13, 2024Oct 13 Community Expert If you don't know how to block them effectively, you would need to contact your hosting provider or CloudFlare to block them.
October 13, 2024Oct 13 Author If you don't know how to block them effectively, you would need to contact your hosting provider or CloudFlare to block them. I mean I have blocked that IP but I’m just guessing that’s the cause
October 14, 2024Oct 14 Community Expert You said that you have blocked them, but the question is if it's still them accessing the site. Look at your server logs to confirm. It may not be the traffic you're blocking that is problematic for you. If you're seeing IPs that are supposed to be blocked, then obviously there would be a configuration problem.
