The IORR Forum pages (Tell Me, Hot Stuff, All Sold Out) performance has been extremely bad lately. The poor performance is due to hostile crawling activity, i.e. not fans, but machines, doing hundreds of page requests per second.

Request to all IORR fans:

1. Patience

2. Feel free to comment on Forum performance lately here in this thread

IMPORTANT INFO: Most of IORR pages, i.e. the editorial IORR pages, like the IORR home page, editorial pages, all pages outside the forum pages, like tour lists, show reports etc are always fast, and never affected by hostile forum activity. If you start Your session With the IORR home page, then accessing tour pages and any other non-forum contents will always be very, very fast.

JUNE 1, 2026 UPDATE:
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During the past few weeks, the hostile activity is back, disturbing the IORR Forum performance, like the Tell Me pages. We are working on the issue, in order to make a new IORR Forum solution with high performance available soon, i.e. within this summer. Thanks for your patience.

Bjornulf



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 2026-06-01 14:10 by bv.

Thanks for explaining. I understand very little of how the internet or even computers work, but you put it in a way I can follow.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2024-07-24 20:59 by snoopy2.

Works fine for me (Western Europe).

Is the attack what one calls a DDoS?

The IORR forum issue is NOT related to Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). With DDoS there are thousands of machines across the world, accessing a domain to take it down, like banks, governments, anyone, it is used by unfriendly hackers and evil countries with paid hacker groups. The master IORR.org domaine is never down, just the forum, a subsite on iorr, is being very slow at times.

Just bear in mind that IORR is two separate systems:

iorr.org : Not affected by the issue (all pages except for "/talk")

iorr/org/talk : Forum pages, data in database, may get slow with many request from crawlers/machines (not real people)

I will find a new and more robust supplier and solution for the forum i.e. talks pages.

Bjornulf

IORR is a gift and a selfless one at that. Thank you for it. The occasional downtime is a minor inconvenience and certainly common enough everywhere online.

That's a complicated matter, at least in parts but a 100% nescessary and worthwhile decision!

IORR is such a rich source of content and even more such a wonderful meeting point of fans of this fantastic band - it should be safe against possible dangers and have a loooooooong future lifespan!

I don't have any problems.........................

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While moving to the new version of the website, I think it would not be the worst idea to rename the Tell Me forum to Tell Me Straight.

I've seen the bad gateway window several times lately. Just thought it was people overloading the site with on tour comments.

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Rocky Dijon
IORR is a gift and a selfless one at that. Thank you for it. The occasional downtime is a minor inconvenience and certainly common enough everywhere online.

Well said Rocky

I am a administrator on a different topic site, in early spring was under attack by hostile spammers,did get rid of them,however I am keeping my eye's wide open.

Update today June 1, 2026:

IMPORTANT INFO: Most of IORR pages, i.e. the editorial IORR pages, like the IORR home page, editorial pages, all pages outside the forum pages, like tour lists, show reports etc are always fast, and never affected by hostile forum activity. If you start Your session With the IORR home page, then accessing tour pages and any other non-forum contents will always be very, very fast.

During the past few weeks, the hostile activity is back, disturbing the IORR Forum performance, like the Tell Me pages. We are working on the issue, in order to make a new IORR Forum solution with high performance available soon, i.e. within this summer. Thanks for your patience.

Bjornulf



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2026-06-01 14:10 by bv.

Thank YOU for your work

Thanks bv bjornulf

Yes, noticed it. Only Tell Me and it has nothing to do with busy posting. Thanks for trying to sort it out.

Thanks bv

Got Stones in my pathway
And bad gate-way late at night .....



ROCKMAN

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Rockman
Got Stones in my pathway
And bad gate-way late at night .....

got gate way error on my iorr
and it has taken my appetite

look forward to using the new forum

thanks bv

Wow. I thought it was my hotspot having another bad day.

Thank you bv

Thanks BV

Cheers, bv!

It's been rather irritating, I must say. Very glad to read that it'll be fixed very soon

As of today at noon time Central Europen Time, the IORR forum performance is excellent, i.e. it takes a second or less to load any forum pages. I have not done any changes, so there may have been some external abuse; will look into it.

Bjornulf

Thanks Bjornulf for all your hard work

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Keep On Rolling

Thank you Bjornulf!

Thank you Bjornulf ....
From down here it seems like
everything is back to normal again .... thanks mate



ROCKMAN

Than you for the fix BV and for all the time and effort you put into this place.

All appreciated bv..Thanks!