InsectNet down - July 27th

[wollastoni]

Hello

Insectnet.com and the forum has been down today.
Inmotion (our host) told me "It appears that there were a large number of long-running PHP processes coming from your site, and a large amount of traffic coming from various bots.".

I have the feeling AI bots are massively scrolling all online forums to try and "speak" as humans.

I am trying to understand with Inmotion how to prevent these bots from reading the forum and overwhelming our server capacity.

Regards
Olivier

[Trehopr1]

Thank you Olivier sincerely for your devotion to keeping the forum as " trouble-free" system wide as is possible !

The evolution of technology and its undesired side effects make unwavering vigilance necessary.

[wollastoni]

Thank you for your words !
True that I would have prefered to spend these 3 hours at phone with a tech guy from Inmotion with my family during my holidays...