SJ77

This almost looks like some sort of automated activity. It seems to be spaced out like clock work. 
 
- Is this a dedicated or shared server?  (If it’s a VPS, are we sure there is not something stealing CPU and causing a lack of resources?)
- Is there anything else that runs on the server outside of IPB?  

- When these spikes happen… we can absolutely see the disk IO increase but this does not describe what’s causing it. What processes are consuming the most disk/cpu/ram?

The fact it lasts 3 days gives you plenty of time to track it down 
Anything  relating to disk usage like backups etc ?

Top is a good start. What is the biggest offender?  (I’m guessing it’s either Apache or Mysql)
Is it CPU or memory constrained?
Have you looked at the server connections?  (netstat -plant)
Have you looked at traffic logs and did any sort of correlation of traffic to load?

There is also htop - its easier to read and a better interface and does all top does, and iotop for input/output processes on a per process basis and metope for mysql.
As stated above how are you using top ? As there are specific command line options to filter things

Not NGINX ? 🤣
 
There is also a good read here over at cPanel forums with a bash script 

That is how the site looks and no matter what I do, run the support tool, turn off all 3rd party plug ins, default theme. It just won't use CSS. No errors at all in the support log. 😞

If you move your site around and some how bugger up the CSS_BUILT_xx directory in the uploads folder, You will spend forever looking at
[[Template core/front/global/globalTemplate is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]]
or just plain, not having CSS and looking at an ugly site.
No amount of running the support tool seems to fix this.
It's very frustrating.  I have no idea how the theme cache works or how to fix it once integrity is lost.
Thoughts?

I've sent you a PM.

Yes, the Downloads App needs more attention. Regarding uploads I think it should techincally be possible to allow huge uploads and downloads, even on hosted sites with little to no possibility to configure the php.ini file. I have seen a new version of a Download App (for a competing software) that allowes exactly that. A very nice feature!
Two more things that come to my mind right away (because I was struggeling with this lately):
4) Categories should not work like forums. Content in subcategories should also show up in the parent one.
5) It should be possible to add more than one category to a download.

I just replied to your ticket 🙂 

HI
I would love the option to EXCLUDE certain authors. Or even certain tags.
As only include options exist there isn't enough flexibility.
Can a plugin be made to add some exclude options?
Thank you
 

Hi
Maxmind has announced some changes coming. Will this affect those of us who are currently using MaxMind legacy minFraud through the ACP?
https://blog.maxmind.com/2020/06/15/data-changes-to-geoip-legacy-and-minfraud-legacy-web-services-in-may-2022/
Thank you 🙂

Please keep in mind that the ability to rename the ACP folder is going to be deprecated in a future release. We do not recommend doing that.
Instead use the 2FA feature to secure your ACP, and you can also add an .htaccess  login form to its folder for an extra layer of protection.
(If you want to be even more secure, and assuming your staff have IP Addresses which do not change frequently, you can use an "allow,deny" block in it with those IP's to further secure it.)

There are a number of things you could do...
Require the use of 2FA for any account that can access the admin area.   Rename the admin directory to something more obscure.  (/ugaboogatest) Use a separate .htaccess password for the admin folder. Limit access to the admin folder to only known/trusted IP addresses. Use a Zero Trust solution to limit access to the admin folder (such as Cloudflare Teams)

Something like this? 🙂
 
 

Yes, just happened again. See:
 
It should go to the post above this one.

Run your domains through cloudflare or similar.

We don't have downloads, but could it be a task that runs on a schedule?

Nah, it's a widget ( IPS\downloads\widgets\_topDownloads ) but I have already helped him to locate it.
It's hopefully resolved now.

OK... short long story if anybody else runs into this...
If you don't have the Pages App:
check your core_widget_areas database table IF you're using IP.Pages:
check your core_widget_areas database table check your cms_page_widget_database areas check your blocks ( ACP => Pages => Blocks ) and the cms_blocks database table.  
 

Check your cms_page_widget_areas and core_widget_areas database tables, which should give you a hint where it's being used.

Thanks SJ77, perhaps IPS will update the integration at some point. 
 
@MattI've read good things about alternative Riskified, apparently they only charge you for approvals and have better detection methods.
https://www.riskified.com/
https://www.riskified.com/chargeback-guarantee/
https://support.riskified.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012160393-API-Integration-Guide-
 

HI,
In order to get it working you will have to request that Maxmind offer you access to the legacy API
That's the only option right now
 
Thank you 🙂

Hi @SJ77
Did you get anywhere with this? I was just looking at their site directed from 4.6.5.1 and where it says you for best results choose v1.3 or above, that link takes me to an error page, even though I'm signed into their site.
https://remoteservices.invisionpower.com/docs/maxmind_version/?version=106127
There is no page in the Help Guide here for this community enhancement.
 

I really like Maxmind but the support out of the IPS box seems to be only for legacy maxmind minfraud API
Maxmind just asked me if I would be upgrading to the non legacy version of Maxmind.
Does anyone know if the new version of IPS supports the upgraded Maxmind API?
Thank you in advance.