What Happened to the chat box?

[matt5112]

i'd vote to leave it off rather than have the forums spontaneously go down. let's all just make a giant Skype chat and see if we can break their server for a while

It went down yesterday when the chat was off...

I believe this calls for a total recode of the site, or a cap on thread lengths. Look at the word association game, its MASSIVE.

[MizzBecca]

give me back my baby!

^x2

[dirtmaster88]

It went down yesterday when the chat was off...

I believe this calls for a total recode of the site, or a cap on thread lengths. Look at the word association game, its MASSIVE.

aww don't hate! I love that thread lol

[matt5112]

aww don't hate! I love that thread lol

Oh its great, but asking a server to pull up a thread with nearly a thousand pages might be a bit much.

[Bio248]

Oh its great, but asking a server to pull up a thread with nearly a thousand pages might be a bit much.

it only pulls up one page at a time...

[matt5112]

well then its time to get a server that doesnt suck or get some new code.

[nawarkk]

I miss the chat. I don't feel like making threads when it'll take room on the server and if my question can be answered quickly through a chat with somebody knowledgeable..

[Thunderturd]

I think you should get a diff chat client..

One that pops out like a IRC or something.

[Liquifire]

any updates, rocket?

[rynoman03]

He sent me a message yesterday. He said currently the chat really bogs down his system and bots are spamming the server doing DDoS attacks everyday around 3am causing the system to bog down. Until he can resolve this issue the chat will not be back.

So its multiple things and disabling the chat is helping keep the site online with less downtime.

[16MustangVet]

I say some of the guys from the site figure out where the attacks are comming from and then take down their sites servers. I now stuntrider and some others are pretty smart about things like that.

[rynoman03]

Ya i think its sucking down the sites bandwidth more than the server resources though. Effin Spammers.

[MizzBecca]

this site wasnt made to have a chat anyway lol, it was made for ppl to get their questions answered about their cars. i think thats a lil more important then a chat that helps pass the time at work. just sayinnn cuz i miss it too but it makes tons of sense. =)

[1998xGTP]

this site wasnt made to have a chat anyway lol, it was made for ppl to get their questions answered about their cars. i think thats a lil more important then a chat that helps pass the time at work. just sayinnn cuz i miss it too but it makes tons of sense. =)

Where's the real becca?

[Liquifire]

this site wasnt made to have a chat anyway lol, it was made for ppl to get their questions answered about their cars. i think thats a lil more important then a chat that helps pass the time at work. just sayinnn cuz i miss it too but it makes tons of sense. =)

Some people actually use the chat for back and forth banter, opinions and fast answers, and not just to bs with each other....I am guilty of using it for both. But a chat is just as useful for car talk as it is for straight up bs'ing

[Rocket468]

Not having any bandwith issues or anything like that. Only using maybe 10% having issues with all running out of cpu . And issues with bots tieing up the server.

[rynoman03]

Ah.I misunderstood you then earlier. Stupid Spam Bots.

[1LoudGrandPrix]

upgrade the cpu

[rynoman03]

I think hes running dual quad core's already. He gave me the specks and its a really beefy machine.

[matt5112]

The issue isn't processing power, its being spammed.