FYI - 2 recent issues caused me to shut down the bbs for several hours.
First there was a denial of service attack which was whacking at the site for several hours. Basically over 7000 fabricated users/bots were accessing the bbs concurrently causing a cached memory file with a data cap to exceed that cap. I can not modify that cap but may be able to move the file to a different data engine to mitigate future issues…I hesitate to do that because it will slow things down.
Second, we have exceeded my servers allocated storage capacity for the posts storage file. I have pruned older threads from the for sale forum and will begin to remove old off topic posts in the major forums.
My hosting company will begin to charge me for the extra data and this will force me to either move to a new provider or actively solicit revenue sources to pay for the site.
As it stands I was upside down last year by $700 and the way things are going this year it will be worse.
Thank you,
Dave Weber
