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#1

General Discussion / Re: Forum down

Last post by Caras pet - Today at 07:00:59 PM

Thanks for the update.
This shows once more that you care for "your" users

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#2

General Discussion / Re: Forum down

Last post by teanndaorsa - Today at 04:34:44 PM

So, here's the weird thing. Up until the start of 2026, the forum saw about 100K to 125K requests per-day, pretty flat, occasional busy weekends, that sort of thing. Then starting about the beginning of March, daily rates became much higher, all over the place and unpredictable, often 300K requests plus. In May that got even worse, in the few weeks leading up to the original post here, there were days of 1800K requests. On those busy days, there was a clear pattern, quiet at night (UTC), but growing to an obvious peak in the middle of the day. And to be clear, this is just the forum traffic, nothing to do with the requests for any of the main sites.

I made some changes between the 24th and the 29th, even blocked the whole of Brazil and Iraq for a few days starting on the 24th. But the last change I made was on the 29th, and then I was letting it sit for a while to see what difference it might make.

Come 1st of June at 18:00 UTC, the numbers just plummet, dramatically, to about 20-25K a day, and have stayed there since. There might be a slightly busier time of day in the evening, UTC, but the numbers are so small now it's hard to tell.

Thing is, those numbers I believe. Given the really, really small user base of the forum, I think that's probably the real load the site needs to sustain. The rest? I'm guessing it's just automated requests.

Were we under attack? Probably not in a directed way, more likely just because this is a Simple Machines Forum and there are automated crawlers that pound on forum servers looking for weaknesses.

Why did it stop? I've no idea. The changes I made were invisible configuration tweaks to reduce the number of failures when the server got overloaded, but they wouldn't have made it any less overloaded. And even if they did, they would have kicked in at the end of the 29th of May, not abruptly almost three days later.

I could pretend I'd made some changes that fixed it, but the last day when there was a prolonged period of errors was on the 21st, the day after I turned on a monitoring tool, but days before I started making any pro-active fixes.

Will it come back? No idea.
Have any of my pro-active changes made any difference? Insufficient evidence to say one way or the other, if the site isn't actually under load/attack.

So over the next couple of weeks I'll be winding down my more expensive interventions, one at a time, and keeping an eye on whether any of them make it worse again. The configuration fixes I'll keep, because they should mostly just make things better when load gets high.

#3

Selfbound Website Stories Feedback / Weightless Love by Zeedrot

Last post by teanndaorsa - Today at 03:45:49 PM

You can view the story here on the plaza:

https://www.selfbound.net/storiessz/weightless_love.html
Sbf; scifi; machine; collar; naked; gag; toys; straps; latex; vacuum; breathplay; tease; denial; electro; clamps; straitjacket; hood; predicament; climax; stuck; cons; XX

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#4

Packaged Website Stories Feedback / Re: The Maidbot Made Me a Meat...

Last post by teanndaorsa - Today at 03:45:25 PM

As promised, part 7 tonight, enjoy!

#5

Latex Website Stories Feedback / Re: Stilettos of the Languishe...

Last post by teanndaorsa - Today at 03:44:37 PM

Up to chapter 20, and I have the remaining four parts in the queue now so you will definitely all get some closure (into a transparent rubber coffin :-P).

#6

Latex Website Stories Feedback / A True Out of Body Experience ...

Last post by teanndaorsa - Today at 03:42:32 PM

You can view the story here on the plaza:

https://www.latexstories.net/storiessz/a_true_out_of_body_experience.html
F/m; latex; bond; horse; cuffs; catsuit; hood; voy; straps; buttplug; toys; tease; denial; cons; XX

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#7

BoundStories Website Stories Feedback / Re: Subspace - Emma's Fetish C...

Last post by teanndaorsa - Today at 03:40:58 PM

A little note here to bring readers attention to https://www.boundstories.net/storiessz/subspace_wren_spreads_her_wings.html, a little side story from the cruise...

#8

BoundStories Website Stories Feedback / Subspace - Wren Spreads Her Wi...

Last post by teanndaorsa - Today at 03:39:51 PM

You can view the story here on the plaza:

https://www.boundstories.net/storiessz/subspace_wren_spreads_her_wings.html
F/f; inf; diapers; chastity; lactate; oral; naked; public; ponygirl; gag; cuffs; cons; XX

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#9

BoundStories Website Stories Feedback / Should Have Known Better by Ge...

Last post by teanndaorsa - Today at 03:38:24 PM

You can view the story here on the plaza:

https://www.boundstories.net/storiessz/should_have_known_better.html
M/f; fanfic; bond; kidnap; drug; strip; cuffs; gag; tease; denial; toys; basement; climax; sex; armbinder; collar; leash; training; slave; outdoors; oral; nc; reluct; XXX

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#10

Maidbots.net stories feedback / Re: Boomerang Maidbot by Objec...

Last post by santosham - Today at 09:25:00 AM

I'm really looking forward for part 5. Maybe he has lost himself in Ava. Maybe he continues to act like Ava without the collar. Who knows what will happen