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2025-07-14 01:47:29

Since sometime this morning (Pacific Time), every time I want to refresh the BOINCstats site, I have to go through the rather annoying " need to verify you're human" thing of CloudFlare, sometimes even coming up with a CloudFlare error page, showing an error on the web site.

At the same time, I now notice that there haven't been any update, for any of the projects I am subscribed to, all day long. Not sure if that is related to the CloudFlare issue at this point...
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2025-07-14 06:01:30

I had to enable CloudFlare's "Under Attack" mode since BOINCstats was overload with requests which slowed everything down. There were so many requests to view statistics that the daily update was already running several hours longer than usual. Usually this is either caused by a new bot scraping the stats for some reason, or an attempt to hack the site. You might have noticed it yesterday, BOINCstats was unreachable a couple of times.

I've disabled the mode now, but I'm not sure if the scraping/attack has stopped.
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2025-07-14 06:06:16

[BOINCstats Willy wrote:

I had to enable CloudFlare's "Under Attack" mode since BOINCstats was overload with requests which slowed everything down. There were so many requests to view statistics that the daily update was already running several hours longer than usual. Usually this is either caused by a new bot scraping the stats for some reason, or an attempt to hack the site. You might have noticed it yesterday, BOINCstats was unreachable a couple of times.

I've disabled the mode now, but I'm not sure if the scraping/attack has stopped.
Thanks Willy for the update.
I am not on the site constantly, and the couple of times I checked in the morning yesterday (my time, Los Angeles), there wasn't anything obvious.
Just notice today, when checking on some issues with WCG, that the stats don't update since yesterday and the more or less constant (ok, two out of 3 times) CloudFlare checks.
Let's hope it all works out soon...

Ralf
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2025-07-14 08:28:48

Just checked before heading to bed and the stats for the last two (one and a half?) days are now showing up.

thanks again for looking into this so quickly,

take care,

Ralf
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2025-07-14 16:09:17

Sorry, had to enable under attack again.
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2025-07-14 16:13:29

OK, thanks, at least now I/we know what's going on....

Ralf
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