Bitcoin Forum

Anyone facing the issue of slow accessing the forum right now ? Sometimes the page take lot of time to load and other times the below error is shown.

https://i.imgur.com/peZJgIg.png

Yes, I am experiencing the same issue sometimes it gives me not just Error 504 but sometimes it's 502 and 524. I don't know what's the deal right now but I guess it's on the Cloudflare system again.

As I am writing to post this reply I encounter again the error 504.

Yeah most users if not everyone. It was mentioned at Wall Observer too. It's the same with Tor browser.

While I'm getting error 502. Seems DDoS? or just theymos doing some upgrade or what.

The site is not 100% down but it shows its down for everyone.  :(

https://i.imgur.com/sUj8BX0.png

Not sure what is going on, but accessing bitcointalk is becoming difficult, the download time is long, the response is slow  ::) Even when I access my messages, it is disconnected completely. This is not good at all  ::) And this topic took a long time for me to read the content  ::)

Yeah, something is obviously slowing it down, but has anyone noticed it seems to open better in different browsers? For instance, firefox is barely loading and giving me cloudflare errors frequently, whilst Chrome is loading, albeit slowly and I'm seemingly not getting the cloudflare page. I remember this happening previous times when the forum has been running slow as well.

It's now more than an hour. I am really having very hard times browsing the forum for the last hours and so more. I think theymos is doing something in the background, otherwise, it never stays such a long time.

If theymos had been doing anything on the forum, he would have informed us in advance. It look like a DDOS attack and therefore we getting to load the site slowly and not at all, other times. Lets wait for theymos to update us on this situation.

It's intermittent.  I found that even when I hit "Post" to reply to a topic just now and it returned 504, the post still seemed to make it through somehow.

I have the same error in chrome, after multiple refreshing i am getting connected if not showing the cloudflare error page.

I try with Chrome, Firefox and Brave and the situation is identical with every browser. What I can confirm is that the situation is almost identical in the past three and a half hours, it works for a moment, but still very slowly.

I check Cloudflare System Status (https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/), and today is reported only one incident (Audit Log Record Retrieval Delays) which is marked as resolved.

There are only two possible reasons for this problem, someone is nasty angry because of the price of BTC and he started DDoS attacks, or some technical hosting issues have occurred. Anyway, I hope the admin didn't take the day off, we need a fix.

The availability test I ran on different browsers bears response rates that are rather high (see https://www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime), and timeout for some countries. Trying to post renders errors 520 ,521 and 503 now constantly. Probably best to take a nap now and see how it’s getting along later on …

I have also faced some loading problem with chrome and brave browser in my mobile. But did not try yet to browse in laptop. At first I was thinking it’s my network problem but Now seeing all are facing this. Is it another DDOS attack? Or anything else?  

Edit: https://i.postimg.cc/SR9CWC3q/IMG-20200209-202740.jpg

Need to ask LoyceV. He was going to parse all forum posts. May be his forum parser is overly zealous?

It is like that for hours. Someone is DDOS'ing. Seems to be fine right now though. I just had a bot-check recently which eliminated the all bots probably.

It's a DDoS.

I wonder how much CloudFlare takes for such a "wonderful" protection

Its is down for everyone.
Maybe Corona Virus is affecting Bitcointalk forum now.... stay safe and wear masks all the time  8)

Most likely it was triggered due to BTC passing 10,000 usd.

Some fool decided to attack the forum hoping to trigger coin sales.

It is 10:25 am eastern standard time and we seem to be all good at this moment.

depends on the package (https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/)
for bitcointalk forum need "Enterprise" package
as far as I know, its cost is from 4к $

Have the same problem with the gateway timeout  :( I thought that I just have a bad internet connection...

Its seems to work fine now

Experiencing the same error from some hours, it's a cool to experience being active at an active DDoS attack. Hope it's blocked and handled soon !  :o

The forum is back to normal. Locking this thread to prevent un-necessary spam posts.