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#91
General Discussion / Re: Forum down
Last post by rbbrlvr - May 22, 2026, 11:57:41 AMForum has been up and down for me ongoing for about a week or so.
#92
Looking for a Story / Re: LF story…sister into slave...
Last post by Caras pet - May 22, 2026, 07:51:08 AMQuote"Master keeps his deals I think. Mum got a better job. My sisters are loving studying in Academegorodok.
Does this sound familiar? Brought to my knees
#93
Looking for a Story / LF story…sister into slavery t...
Last post by Clairic - May 22, 2026, 06:15:08 AMThere was a story about a sister that was placed into slavery either by contract or by blackmail.
But her master will take care of her family as long as she stays his slave. Parent/s has/have a great new job and her sister has a full ride to college.
Any ideas?
But her master will take care of her family as long as she stays his slave. Parent/s has/have a great new job and her sister has a full ride to college.
Any ideas?
#94
Trashcan Stories / Re: My Trashcan Stories
Last post by Junkyard Society - May 21, 2026, 07:35:48 PMAn 18 year old girl lived alone in an homeless camp by an remote forest. An 18 yera old girl lived alone in an homeless camp by an remote forest and one day had the girl been going back to the homeless camp with an shiny, clear and very thick balloon with an very wide rubber neck she got at an toy store that had an opening party. One morning at 7AM was the drowsy girl rubbing the shiny, squealing, stinky, clear and very thick balloon with an very wide rubber neck down in an cooler with a tons of old and stinky bags from 7AM until 11PM non stop.
#95
BoundStories Website Stories Feedback / Re: Sophie and Mark by Twisted...
Last post by Caras pet - May 21, 2026, 11:18:28 AMPart 5 again was a joyful read, looking forward to part 6 
#96
Pet & PonyGirl Stories / Re: Art and Pets by Rotaugur
Last post by Caras pet - May 21, 2026, 11:13:20 AMI liked the playfull writing of part 2
#97
Pet & PonyGirl Stories / Re: Her Superpowered Pet by Ze...
Last post by Caras pet - May 21, 2026, 06:56:00 AMEntertaining story, thanks for sharing.
The superpowers weren't really needed to make the story work - but maybe in part 2?
The superpowers weren't really needed to make the story work - but maybe in part 2?
#98
General Discussion / Re: Forum down
Last post by Caras pet - May 21, 2026, 06:29:11 AMThanks for investigating the issue.
Yes, the server is just fine when the forum is down, at least I can ping it and get stable responses.
The PHP logs didn't contain any clues?
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Forum was down again as I tried to post a reply; looked like the reply wasn't sent, preview didn't work either.
Just checked: The reply was indeed saved, so the page just couldn't reload itself afterwards - maybe that helps?
Yes, the server is just fine when the forum is down, at least I can ping it and get stable responses.
The PHP logs didn't contain any clues?
[edit]
Forum was down again as I tried to post a reply; looked like the reply wasn't sent, preview didn't work either.
Just checked: The reply was indeed saved, so the page just couldn't reload itself afterwards - maybe that helps?
#99
General Discussion / Re: Forum down
Last post by teanndaorsa - May 20, 2026, 09:12:47 PMI suspect the other site is just a coincidence.
I've just watched the Plaza (or at least the dynamic parts of it) be down for an hour or two. It doesn't appear to be the server being overloaded, or even properly offline, it just gets itself into a state where PHP requests take too long and the CDN that sits in front of the site gives up waiting. So I suspect either a misconfiguration on my part, or sporadic attacks that hog all of the connections to the PHP part without actually making it work hard. I say attacks because I've enabled some more detailed analysis that breaks down the traffic by country, and it's showing Brazil and Iraq as generating four times as much traffic between them as the US does, when I know that typically the US is our biggest visitors by far. And even with the basic monitoring looking back I can see this is something that has crept up in frequency since January.
I'm afraid there's no quick fix here though, because I don't want to just block those two countries, and there isn't an easy configuration change (that I know of) that I can make that will address the root cause. I've something I can try which may make the site more efficient and less vulnerable to the problem, but I won't have the time to test it properly until the weekend or some time next week. So you'll have to bear with it for now, sorry.
I've just watched the Plaza (or at least the dynamic parts of it) be down for an hour or two. It doesn't appear to be the server being overloaded, or even properly offline, it just gets itself into a state where PHP requests take too long and the CDN that sits in front of the site gives up waiting. So I suspect either a misconfiguration on my part, or sporadic attacks that hog all of the connections to the PHP part without actually making it work hard. I say attacks because I've enabled some more detailed analysis that breaks down the traffic by country, and it's showing Brazil and Iraq as generating four times as much traffic between them as the US does, when I know that typically the US is our biggest visitors by far. And even with the basic monitoring looking back I can see this is something that has crept up in frequency since January.
I'm afraid there's no quick fix here though, because I don't want to just block those two countries, and there isn't an easy configuration change (that I know of) that I can make that will address the root cause. I've something I can try which may make the site more efficient and less vulnerable to the problem, but I won't have the time to test it properly until the weekend or some time next week. So you'll have to bear with it for now, sorry.
#100
General Discussion / Re: Forum down
Last post by bentbliss - May 19, 2026, 11:07:16 PMI've seen this message early and there have been a few times over the past week where it wasn't accessible and had a Cloudflare message. That one happened with another site as well.
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