DC site often doesn't load at all...

[kunkel321]

I'm not sure where to post this.  On some days (like today) the donationcoder.com site works fine.  But often, it will never load, and will time-out instead.  Sometimes I get to the CloudFlair page, sometimes not.  I live west of Seattle, WA.

[Ath]

Yesterday I've posted a similar message to mouser on the Discord general-discussion channel, but he hasn't responded yet.
I've seen the same behavior for several weeks now, usually about a failed TLS handshake (HTTP 525 error) between CF and the DC server. I live in the Netherlands, Europe (CET).

[rgdot]

As of this post I see "8,514 Guests, 1 User", I have seen similar numbers on my and other forums as well. Attacks and bot floods have gone way up in recent months. I don't know what server DC runs on these days but even a decent server can be brought to its knees by thousands of 'guests' testing the php resources and database connections. Cloudflare can help but that means putting up the human verification permanently and perhaps more.

[SuperMan]

Don't come here often, but over the past couple of weeks I have regularly had trouble loading the site.

Today got these two different errors:

#1

#2

[SuperMan]

Don't come here often, but over the past couple of weeks I have regularly had trouble loading the site.

Today got these two different errors:

#1

#2

Had to try posting this about 10 times to get it to post.  Sorry for the double post.  Looks like one of the previous posts that I though didn't go through apparently did.

[SuperMan]

Today it seems to be working as expected.

Sort of.  Still very slow to load pages sometimes... and to post this.

[kunkel321]

It has been working well for the last several days.  I'm near Seattle.

[Ath]

It's been quite stable, though somewhat slow, since the Cloudflare protection was re-enabled, recently.