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Cloudflare Issues

Post by Carl Hibbard » Tue Nov 18, 2025 12:54 pm

Seems to be fun and games at Cloudflare so problem is there and affecting lots of sites.
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Re: Cloudflare Issues

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Tue Nov 18, 2025 3:28 pm

Looks like it has been fixed, at least for the time being.
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Re: Cloudflare Issues

Post by Carl Hibbard » Sun Jul 05, 2026 1:58 pm

We are having a lot of performance and load issues but at the moment I am not sure why.
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Re: Cloudflare Issues

Post by Carl Hibbard » Sun Jul 05, 2026 2:06 pm

Carl Hibbard wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 05, 2026 1:58 pm
 We are having a lot of performance and load issues but at the moment I am not sure why.
Several million requests a day is simply more than the equipment can deal with.
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Re: Cloudflare Issues

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Sun Jul 05, 2026 3:25 pm

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Re: Cloudflare Issues

Post by Paul McKeown » Mon Jul 06, 2026 11:17 am

Seems that one can not acccess this site using a VPN anymore, Cloudflare in overdrive.
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Re: Cloudflare Issues

Post by Carl Hibbard » Mon Jul 06, 2026 11:56 am

Paul McKeown wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 06, 2026 11:17 am
 Seems that one can not acccess this site using a VPN anymore, Cloudflare in overdrive.
For now we are in United Kingdom mode only until I can figure out why things have suddenly got so bad.
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Re: Cloudflare Issues

Post by Carl Hibbard » Mon Jul 06, 2026 1:31 pm

Carl Hibbard wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 06, 2026 11:56 am
Paul McKeown wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 06, 2026 11:17 am
 Seems that one can not acccess this site using a VPN anymore, Cloudflare in overdrive.
For now we are in United Kingdom mode only until I can figure out why things have suddenly got so bad.
We have returned to normal for now.
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Re: Cloudflare Issues

Post by Nigel White » Tue Jul 14, 2026 11:33 am

I was briefly blocked from the site by Cloudflare today. I think the issue may have been the bookmark I was connecting via was http not https. Also I find that I am being logged out of the site with ever increasing frequency, despite telling it to remember me.
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Re: Cloudflare Issues

Post by Carl Hibbard » Tue Jul 14, 2026 12:16 pm

Nigel White wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 14, 2026 11:33 am
 I was briefly blocked from the site by Cloudflare today. I think the issue may have been the bookmark I was connecting via was http not https. Also I find that I am being logged out of the site with ever increasing frequency, despite telling it to remember me.
We no longer allow http connections to be honest sorry - most modern browsers will move to https for you.

Let me know if the logging out issue however persists.
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Re: Cloudflare Issues

Post by Carl Hibbard » Tue Jul 14, 2026 12:23 pm

Carl Hibbard wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 14, 2026 12:16 pm
Nigel White wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 14, 2026 11:33 am
 I was briefly blocked from the site by Cloudflare today. I think the issue may have been the bookmark I was connecting via was http not https. Also I find that I am being logged out of the site with ever increasing frequency, despite telling it to remember me.
We no longer allow http connections to be honest sorry - most modern browsers will move to https for you.

Let me know if the logging out issue however persists.
Hmm ok that is not strictly true but you should always end up at https://www.ecforum.org.uk/
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