Apologies the site is down, its good news and bad news.
The ongoing attacks/probing has caused the forum to use all of its "CPU Seconds", these will be reinstated at the end of the month.
I moved some of the website protection from siteground to Cloudflare, which has better tools (or rather presents the data in amore accessible way).
This means i now have greater insight into the issues presented to the site, though the net effect is the same - i can see its not a traditional DDOS attack.
We are being probed and scanned by certain bots and networks that are looking for certain vulnerabilities.
I have been able to add rules to :
1) enhance rate limiting and flood prevention.
2) certain countries will be required to validate themselves, most legitimate users should not see a direct impact.
3) blocks to certain automated networks/agents...
The above countermeasures are active now, but siteground wont reenable user access to the site until the end of the month - apologies.
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