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Offline gadget42

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question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« on: August 23, 2025, 01:49:31 AM »
question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?

iirc, up until quite recently the most online ever was about 1k less?

did we get a mention somewhere recently?

or is it just increased ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc activities?
« Last Edit: August 23, 2025, 02:04:34 AM by gadget42 »
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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2025, 02:20:56 AM »
just noticed that a few hours after i posted the above commentary on the increased traffic from ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc, the ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc traffic doubled. ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc is ruining the open web for everyone everywhere.
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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2025, 08:55:22 AM »
It’s bots.  There is not an easy way to remove them from the online count
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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2025, 09:43:50 AM »
imho i think it is better that forum members/visitors ARE able to see the bot traffic

i would not want it hidden at/on any website, in fact it should be actively called out by all the websites under siege.
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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2025, 10:01:59 AM »
Most of them are well behaved, honoring rate settings.   I’ve not seen it really affect the load of the server.
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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2025, 06:36:16 PM »
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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2025, 06:11:10 AM »
wowza!

Most Online Ever: 16857 (December 09, 2025, 12:37:20 PM)

anyone know the _what/why_ regarding this recent rather large spike in MOE traffic?
(might be ai/bot/llm/lvm/etc using residential based proxies which would massively increase the "individual" entity traffic based on originating ip addresses)
(re: residential proxies, see for example _randomly_referenced_ oxylabs.io and www[.]webshare.io)
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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2025, 10:09:49 AM »
after reading a recent commentary that included information about aisuru botnet here:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-2025-q3/#aisuru-breaking-records-with-ultrasophisticated-hyper-volumetric-ddos-attacks

more searching resulted in a couple pieces from krebs:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/ddos-botnet-aisuru-blankets-us-isps-in-record-ddos/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisuru-botnet-shifts-from-ddos-to-residential-proxies/

snippet tidbit(mostly because an earlier post referenced oxylabs.io and www[.]webshare.io):
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Today, Spur says it is tracking an unprecedented spike in available proxies across all providers, including;

LUMINATI_PROXY    11,856,421
NETNUT_PROXY    10,982,458
ABCPROXY_PROXY    9,294,419
OXYLABS_PROXY     6,754,790
IPIDEA_PROXY     3,209,313
EARNFM_PROXY    2,659,913
NODEMAVEN_PROXY    2,627,851
INFATICA_PROXY    2,335,194
IPROYAL_PROXY    2,032,027
YILU_PROXY    1,549,155
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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2026, 07:59:52 AM »
naturally the bots are still out of control:

https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,28089.0.html
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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #9 on: Today at 04:28:55 PM »
 Most Online Today: 31582. Most Online Ever: 31582 (Today at 10:43:55 AM)
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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #10 on: Today at 04:43:03 PM »
Yup.  They all nailed the server at the same time about 11:40 EDT.

It’s why a lot of servers are putting cloudflare in front of them.
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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #11 on: Today at 04:45:00 PM »
It is probably my fault. I check TC a few times a week.

Sorry

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Re: question for admin/mods: wondering reason for increased forum website traffic?
« Reply #12 on: Today at 04:52:06 PM »
Hi Paul_123
There were about 16000 users around 11:40. They really managed
to slow the site down. When I returned later on I saw the number
had peaked to over 31000.
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