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Title: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: raven on February 23, 2018, 06:37:19 AM
Resource Limit Is Reached
The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later.
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I've been seeing this more and more as I try to access pages. It usually goes away with a refresh or two, but I am still curious of others are having a similar issue.
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: Kiwi on February 23, 2018, 06:56:18 AM
Yes, I got the same message when I clicked on the link to this thread, but the second click worked. That's about the fifth time I've got the message in this and the last two visits.
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: gwiz on February 23, 2018, 09:06:41 AM
Affected me also.  Can't think what's using resources on a forum that currently only gets a few messages a day.
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: gillianren on February 23, 2018, 12:06:15 PM
Was actually going to report this as soon as the page would let me on.
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: Northern Lurker on February 23, 2018, 12:44:57 PM
o/ same problem here.

Lurky
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: QuietElite on February 23, 2018, 12:52:27 PM
Me too
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: AtomicDog on February 23, 2018, 02:29:58 PM
Same here.
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: Halcyon Dayz, FCD on February 23, 2018, 07:37:20 PM
Ditto.
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: LunarOrbit on February 23, 2018, 07:51:58 PM
Thanks everyone, I'm looking into it.

The website has been the target of a number of DDoS (denial of service) attacks off and on for the last several months. I've blocked many IP addresses to try to ease the burden on the server, but it doesn't seem to make much difference for very long.

And to make things worse, the hosting company I use is not being very helpful. They want to put the blame on me even though there is very little I can do to stop a DDoS attack. So I suspect these 508 "Resource Limit" errors are actually due to my host putting limits on the website and not because there is an attack happening.

I might switch to another host if this continues, but that doesn't guaranty the problem will go away.

I apologize for the inconvenience, I'm going to keep doing what I can to resolve the problem.
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: LunarOrbit on February 23, 2018, 09:22:04 PM
Ok... fingers crossed...

I might have resolved this issue (for now anyway). I blocked an IP address that was hammering the website with requests all day long. The IP address apparently belongs to Microsoft, so it could have been Bing indexing the website, but it was reporting it's location as the Netherlands. So that seemed strange to me, but even if it really is Bing... oh well. No one uses Bing. ;)
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: raven on February 24, 2018, 03:16:08 AM
Ok... fingers crossed...

I might have resolved this issue (for now anyway). I blocked an IP address that was hammering the website with requests all day long. The IP address apparently belongs to Microsoft, so it could have been Bing indexing the website, but it was reporting it's location as the Netherlands. So that seemed strange to me, but even if it really is Bing... oh well. No one uses Bing. ;)
I use Bing . . . to translate English into Klingon, since Google Translate doesn't do that. VuDwIj, tu'lu' pagh meq Google lo'.
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: Bryanpoprobson on February 24, 2018, 05:34:28 AM
It was still happening to me today ☹️
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: raven on February 24, 2018, 11:10:13 PM
It was still happening to me today ☹️
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: Allan F on March 01, 2018, 04:51:14 PM
Still problems.
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: Obviousman on March 12, 2018, 04:57:55 PM
Multiple times over the last few days... however trying to click a link again sometimes works.
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: LunarOrbit on March 12, 2018, 10:54:59 PM
Sorry guys, I am still working on it. Unfortunately due to the nature of DDoS attacks it's difficult to stop this from happening. The attacks come from multiple points, and even when I block them they just spring up again from another location. They also don't advertise themselves as attacks... they look like ordinary website traffic... just a lot of it.

At this point I am blocking Russian and Chinese IP addresses on sight. The attacks are coming from the United States and Europe as well, but I'm nervous about blocking IP addresses from those areas because I might accidentally block legitimate users.
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: Grashtel on March 13, 2018, 01:16:57 AM
Have you looked at the option of using CloudFlare or similar protection services?
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: bknight on March 13, 2018, 07:40:30 AM
Sorry guys, I am still working on it. Unfortunately due to the nature of DDoS attacks it's difficult to stop this from happening. The attacks come from multiple points, and even when I block them they just spring up again from another location. They also don't advertise themselves as attacks... they look like ordinary website traffic... just a lot of it.

At this point I am blocking Russian and Chinese IP addresses on sight. The attacks are coming from the United States and Europe as well, but I'm nervous about blocking IP addresses from those areas because I might accidentally block legitimate users.
What is DDoS?
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: LunarOrbit on March 13, 2018, 09:23:50 AM
Sorry guys, I am still working on it. Unfortunately due to the nature of DDoS attacks it's difficult to stop this from happening.
What is DDoS?

Sorry, bknight. DDoS stands for "Distributed Denial of Service".

DDoS attacks try to take websites offline by overwhelming their server with too much traffic. And instead of an attack coming from one location it is being spread out amongst many computers (usually computers that have been hijacked by malware). And like I said in my previous post, the real difficulty with these kinds of attacks is that they look like ordinary website traffic, so it's difficult to recognize which traffic is legitimate and which is part of the attack.
Title: Re: Repeated Though Tempory (with repeated refresh) 508 errors.
Post by: LunarOrbit on March 13, 2018, 09:26:13 AM
Have you looked at the option of using CloudFlare or similar protection services?

Yeah, I added CloudFlare on February 23. It has helped a bit, I think, and it helps me determine where the attacks are coming from. I also added it to my other website (TheSpaceRace.com) which shares the same server.