New! Site Running Slowly

[TK H-H]

Good morning/afternoon/evening,

Just wanted to let everyone know that we're currently working on resolving the issue of the website running slowly today. We are aware of it.

Apologies for the inconvenience. Hopefully we'll have everything back running smoothly soon.

- The Creative Spark team.

 

[PaintBoss]

Well, that was like some of the worst days on Internet dial-up back in the day!
Much better now.

 

[Enyaw]

Tuesday, 21st…running like a snail in syrup trying to get uphill. 2:30 pm

 

[Enyaw]

Now she’s running ..4:44 pm

 

[PaintBoss]

Thank you. And thanks for your patience. Very frustrating. We are doing everything we can right now and looking for other solutions as well. There continues to be massive, ongoing attacks on all the websites using this software.

 

[Enyaw]

Spoke too soon but I guess you know that.

 

[TK H-H]

We're still working on this issue. It's unfortunately been slower going than we'd hoped...

There's been an issue with bot traffic swarming several websites as of late, so we're not alone in it. There's so many page load requests coming from them wandering around, it's making everything load a lot slower.

XenForo itself hasn't been particularly helpful here (hence why this is taking longer...), so we're looking at another service that may be able to solve the issue.

 

[ams]

Thanks for working on it.

 

[Hermes2020]

It seems to be back to normal now.

 

[Enyaw]

It seems to be back to normal now

I’ll second that.

 

[PaintBoss]

Yes three hours ago it was accessible too. (4am Eastern).

 

[LizC]

I wasn't able to access it yesterday but today seems fine

 

[PaintBoss]

Yes, I found it got better in the early hours of this morning.