Site is running slow

My wife and kids turned our fast laptop into a piece of junk. I only use my phone for anything internet.

What a world we live in. Someone calls me on my home phone 10 times a day. It comes up as "American Red Cross". It's a fake. (I do donate blood on a regular basis)
 
Well it seems as though I may have pissed them off. At 2:05 AM PST we have 245 guests, mostly with IPs from China. I can't stay up all night adding them to the blocked IP addresses and will need to recruit my partners into helping add them to the list. The battle is on. We may run into some more slow loading times as these leeches keep sucking our bandwidth.

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I'm not real smart on this hacking stuff, but why would anybody want to hack this forum? What do they have to gain? I will gladly send them pictures of me with the V. Just ask.
If they can gain control of this server they could possibly have access to databases of personal customer info for other sites on this server. As well as possibly gain access to additional servers that share credentials.

I'm not totally sure, but since I know that Wav does hosting and design - it seems some of his clients have e-commerce - that could be a potential target. But moreover they could then zombie the server for future use in a botnet or other malicious purposes.
Typically they are seeking free server access to utilize our mail server and send spam. They could potentially use our server to host porn images and charge their clients for hosting. I've been victim of both scenarios.
 
Well it seems as though I may have pissed them off. At 2:05 AM PST we have 245 guests, mostly with IPs from China. I can't stay up all night adding them to the blocked IP addresses and will need to recruit my partners into helping add them to the list. The battle is on. We may run into some more slow loading times as these leeches keep sucking our bandwidth.

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How can we Mods help?
 
Typically they are seeking free server access to utilize our mail server and send spam. They could potentially use our server to host porn images and charge their clients for hosting. I've been victim of both scenarios.
You probably don't hear it often enough, so thanks for everything Wav.
You keep the gears greased and the boilers steamin' just for our entertainment and sharing of :poo:.
And for that sir, we thank you.

If you need to clean up any porn from the site, feel free to use my in box to dispose of it...:hide:
 
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