JohnCourt

2 hours ago, teraßyte said:

You're nowhere near your limits in that screenshot. Is it possible that your site/server was hit by a DDOS attack? I'd check that with your hosting.

They stated earlier that I had a lot of traffic from robots but not a DDOS attack, I did ask about that. So I followed their instructions and opened an account with Cloudfare.  I followed the instructions below to disable auto creation of the robots.txt file and it made no difference.

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To avoid unwanted bot access, we recommend using Cloudflare and making use of the robots.txt file to manage the bot crawling on your website.
To learn more about on how to active cloudflare and disable the automatic creation of the robots.txt file, please check these article:

https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/add-on-services/cloudflare/how-to-activate-cloudflare
https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/developer-corner/disabling-automatic-creation-of-the-robots-txt-file/

I am at a loss as to what to do, this is all getting over my head, and with every question I have they direct me to a help article on A2hosting help center and I try their suggestions but there is no difference, I still keep hitting my limits.

Good day folks, hoping to get a little guidance here.

I have been dealing with my server generating a 503 error for my community and when I check my server I have a message that my resource limits were exceeded in the last 24 hours.

This started happening suddenly about 3 weeks ago and I've been going back n forth with my hosting customer service and I have followed some suggestions they put forth to no avail. Here is the last thing they messaged me:

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cPanel is currently showing the following warnings :

You have reached the limits within the past 24 hours
CPU resources limit was reached for your site
You have reached the entry processes (the number of simultaneously running php and cgi scripts, as well as cron jobs and shell sessions) limit 3844 times
You have reached the processes number limit 23174 times

I have reset the resources on the account. This may help temporarily, until your applications cause resources to go up again. Your site scripting needs more resources than your hosting plan provides, which can cause your sites to load slower than normal and/or cause intermittent errors. You and your web developer will need to review the resource usage of your account and take steps to reduce the load your scripting is creating or upgrade to a plan with more resources.
 

I find it hard to believe that all the sudden my community software needs more resources, but? Any direction is greatly appreciated if you are able to.

Thanks folks!

I am not sure if this helps, but here are my server stats:

Zayed, please disregard report above. Embarrassingly, the links I was seeing were ones I edited myself in the members topic years ago, and the topics were being brought back to the top by reply, showing the rich links in the members topic.

Sorry!

Good day Zayed, I am experiencing a small issue, it appears the Link Embed is not honoring permissions. I had it only where I could use the plugin by creating a group named R&D and assigning myself to that group, then assigning Link Embed permissions for only the R&D group, it has worked for the years we have had it till now. We are seeing it work for regular members now, before they'd post an external link and it would show as a link only, but now the Link Embed is appearing.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, thanks! 🙂

On 9/1/2023 at 3:50 AM, Marc Stridgen said:

Do you use woocommerce at all, John? That looks to be one from that application

No, never have Marc, thanks for checking though! We don't do anything commercial in our community, we only have two static images that represent two sponsors who pay a yearly fee to have those images in our community. And there is nothing in the background of those images in the form of trackers or cookies. Just a link back to their websites is all. Those two sponsors is our only way of generating income.

I tried AdSense awhile back, but I hated how it looked, and took it off quickly, and I deleted the tracker that I installed.

History.store, hmmmm, interesting. Can hackers put things like that on a community?

13 hours ago, Jim M said:

You can find a list of our essential cookies below which cannot be rejected. The same list is on /cookies of your community as well.

Thank you Jim.

13 hours ago, Jim M said:

History.store is not from our software (or at least our core software, it could be something third party you installed).

Jim, I don't remember installing anything like this, since we don't participate in any adsoftware such as adsense or anything that I would have installed, that being said, would you happen to know where I could start looking to find it? Thanks

Howdy folks, just for the heck of it I went ahead and scanned my community for trackers just to see what others may be seeing.

I know about the PIWIK tracker, I use Matomo Analytics formerly called PIWIK so I understand that.

I used this website for scanning: https://termly.io/

In my screen shots Bulgaria is seen, is that where "termly" is located. And the High Rick trackers is worrisome, the Unclassified ones are strange, specially the History.store, what the heck is that?

Thanks for any help in deciphering these.

6 hours ago, WP V0RT3X said:

At the moment it's only for the AdminCP. IC5 will have a darkmode for the frontend too.

Thanks for the headsup Vort!

Hey folks, I thought for a second there, I read somewhere that in our core theme, we can flip a switch to allow a user to view the theme in a dark or light mode? If so, can you please tell me where the switch is? Thank you 🙂

2 minutes ago, Jim M said:

Perhaps FireFox's privacy settings is blocking something from Google which it requires to show ads. You would need to contact Google about that. Regardless, sounds like our software is serving your advertisement so you did set it up correctly.

Looks like Jim. IP is fine. I get the hint though Jim, move on move on, it's not an IP issue 😂

Hey folks, just curious, as a user here in this community, when I go to see a profile, I always look for their website url in contact methods at their profile page, because I am curious what others are doing with their IP Communities.

But rarely, if ever, do I see their links. Is there a reason folks here don't want other folks visiting their sites? I know many communities are pretty private for one reason or another, but for those who run a generally public community such as gaming, cars, guns, software, and much more, is there a reason why folks don't like to put their community link in their contact methods? Just curious is all.

Ok Randy and David, the code was working all this time, I tried Chrome and Edge and I can see the ads, but in firefox I cannot, I don't have any ad blocker software on my firefox browser, I don't know why they don't display in firefox, hmmm.

This has been very helpful, thanks guys! I am trying to use individual ads placement, manually.

Thanks Randy, so my technique is good? I thought for sure I had it jacked up.

Thank you in advance folks.

So I have met all the qualifications and approvals by Google Adsense, and have my ads.txt in the root of my domain, and I copy pasted the code supplied by Adsense into the head tags of my "globalTemplate" file, thanks for all your help with that @David N.

I have read the Adsense help topics and it seems pretty convoluted for my simple mind and I am struggling with placing the actual AD code into a location on my website to display the Ad. It is script code, and I would like to create a block with the advertisement code in that block, and place the custom block in my community to display the ad.

I copy paste the code provided by Adsense into my custom block, and when I place my block, nothing ever appears.

This is what I am trying to place:

<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
     crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<!-- Forum Page Sidebar -->
<ins class="adsbygoogle"
     style="display:block"
     data-ad-client="ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
     data-ad-slot="xxxxxxxxxx"
     data-ad-format="auto"
     data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>
<script>
     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
</script>

Do I need to add anything before or after the script code for the ad to appear?

Thanks for any help!

3 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Caught me. Very much read that incorrectly 😄John, please could you confirm this is definitely adsense you are referring to?

That is correct Marc, AdSense it is! And it looks like @David N. beat ya to the punch 🙂 I found it as David described, thanks all for your help here!

Hey folks, a very rookie question here I am sure, but I don't know where to place some adsense code, my instructions to get started with adsense is to copy paste some code between the head tags, can you please tell me where the head tags are? Thanks!

Did as you stated Marc, so I'll not use Tweet anymore. THanks

Thanks Marc, I understand the social promotion not going well, copy link paste to social media will have to do, but for my own internal Our Picks and the feed on our front page, they are not showing.

Here is the link to a file I tried to promote: https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/files/file/232-workbench-magazine-july-august-1968-tool-caddy-plus-dining-room-is-workshop/

Our Picks

Home Page

Thanks sir!

I just noticed that Our Picks and the Our Picks feed is not working anymore. I click on "Promote" for the item to be promoted, yet it never shows up in "Our Picks" page, nor the "Our Picks" feed. But it did promote, because if I view that item again, the button is set at "Re-Promote" indicating that it was promoted.

Also, it is not promoting to Twitter, or X anymore.

Any feedback or direction is greatly appreciated, thank you 🙂

1 minute ago, Jim M said:

Though, that might be the suggestion here to give you a better workflow and not having to worry about mass deleting members.

I'll take it! Don't ya just love compromise. 😁

1 hour ago, Jim M said:

The better question is if you want to delete spammers, why wasn't the "Flag as Spammer" option used and opted to delete the member and content? That would be 1 click 🙂 . I would use the prune steps Marc mentioned above to remove the spammers you did this in the past and then use the "Flag as Spammer" option moving forward.

I gotta get my head wrapped around that Jim. I'll have to look and see what you mean, I am sure it would work.

So, if we mark a member as spammer, then it will auto delete the member, we can set it up that way?

The community we have, we have banned one legitimate member in all the years we have been a community, it was over continuous use of language.

All our banned members are spammers, so it would be nice to be able to have the option to select all "Banned" or "Spammer" and hit the delete button. Two clicks, and WHAM! Done, onto more important things 🙂

28 minutes ago, Daniel F said:

That's already happening once the "Hide content submitted already" or "Delete content submitted already" option is enabled

Daniel, as far as I know if you ban or mark a member as spammer, the profile page is still visible by other members?

Good day. I was curious if we could in the future add a "Select All" box for Spammers and Banned in order to delete them all at once? At this point we have to delete each one individually and it can take a considerable amount of time if you have a few dozen. Thanks!