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Indeed, issues only started at 13:00
@PeterJ - Is this "attack mode" what's now preventing me from downloading TAP/TZX zip archives from the site? For example:PeterJ wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 3:10 pm Unfortunately we had what looks like to my untrained eyes to be another denial of service attack. The easiest way I have found to sort this is to stop the web-server and database to kill the connections, enable attack mode on Cloudflare, then restart the web-server and database.
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$ wget https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/games/c/CaseyJones.tzx.zip
--2023-02-18 14:55:15-- https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/games/c/CaseyJones.tzx.zip
Resolving spectrumcomputing.co.uk (spectrumcomputing.co.uk)... 172.64.80.1, 2606:4700:130:436c:6f75:6466:6c61:7265
Connecting to spectrumcomputing.co.uk (spectrumcomputing.co.uk)|172.64.80.1|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2023-02-18 14:55:15 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
That looks quite CPU painful , I saw it go off while you were restarting it.
Yes, or leeching.
Overzealous spectrumming.