Sorry but you cannot use search at this time. The server has high load. Please try again later.

[1024MAK]

I’m getting an error message:

Sorry but you cannot use search at this time. The server has high load. Please try again later.

This when trying to use the “Active topics” from the drop down menu.

Screenshot below:


Mark

[PeterJ]

Thanks @1024MAK,

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.

Everyone will have a JavaScript prompt for a while.

This is the last six hours....

[1024MAK]

Yeah, had no problems earlier today (this morning).

Mark

[PeterJ]

Yeah, had no problems earlier today (this morning).

Indeed, issues only started at 13:00

[1024MAK]

Forgot to say, search etc, is all working okay again.

Thanks

[SkoolKid]

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.

@PeterJ - Is this "attack mode" what's now preventing me from downloading TAP/TZX zip archives from the site? For example:

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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.

I get the same 403 response when I try to download anything with SkoolKit's tap2sna.py, which makes testing t2s files a bit difficult.

Is there a specific user agent string I can use to work around this? (I've tried a couple already with no success.)

[PeterJ]

@SkoolKid,

Possibly. I will turn the attack mode off on Sunday morning (assuming traffic has reduced to normal) and will PM you. Just let me know if you still have issues.

You can only download one game file every 10 seconds. This is to reduce scraping (I think that's the right word).

[spider]

This is the last six hours....

That looks quite CPU painful , I saw it go off while you were restarting it.

... This is to reduce scraping (I think that's the right word)

Yes, or leeching.

[R-Tape]

Thanks for handling Peter. This stuff sounds like a right pain in the arse.

You can only download one game file every 10 seconds. This is to reduce scraping (I think that's the right word).

Overzealous spectrumming.