COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

[Stanley]

They are a different sender each time but Thunderbird always catches them and puts them in the junk folder.

[PanBiker]

Kev, have a look at my further SSL woes but regarding Plesk access. Am I missing something?

[Big Kev]

Kev, have a look at my further SSL woes but regarding Plesk access. Am I missing something?

I've replied to you, I have access with Plesk Mobile.

[Stanley]

Further to the phishing scams I have blocked. I have noticed that the senders are almost always what looks like private email addresses supported by Hotmail or Gmail and so I don't see how they can be blocked..... Thunderbird is very good at recognising them and putting them in the junk mail folder.

[Big Kev]

I couldn't get on the site at 19:30, checked and the CPU was maxed out at 100% on the server. This is now sorted. Looked to be an 'attack' from multiple IP addresses in Singapore

[Stanley]

Thanks Kev... Something funny has been happening to Bob's Bits for three days now.

[PanBiker]

I still can't get into Plesk, Firefox and Chrome reject the site on security grounds.

A bit later, just got in using the link Kev provided the other day.

The storm of data from Singapore should not have happened, I put SG in the Firewall a couple of months ago. I did Indonesia and Sri Lanka in the same block.

[Stanley]

I'm hope SG doesn't mean the SG!

[PanBiker]

Nope, you share your initials with the the international 2 digit country code for Singapore. It's a lot easier to use wide brush compared to adding individual and ranges of IP's to the firewall.

On a wing and a prayer we must be doing something right. Our server status is rated at 4050 on a scale of 4550.

[Big Kev]

The storm of data from Singapore should not have happened, I put SG in the Firewall a couple of months ago. I did Indonesia and Sri Lanka in the same block.

Looking again, 43.x.x.x is China not Singapore. It was most likely happening as the firewall was disabled, once I re-enabled it it picked up on your original rule

[Big Kev]

A bit later, just got in using the link Kev provided the other day.

Good stuff

[PanBiker]

Kev, if you have a bit of time can you try deploying a new version of the Dev Site. There are two spare databases on the IONOS site with different versions of PHP. Feel free to change the password to get access to either. You can display all the config information using "database details". Dev site runs in our original web space on the IONOS side of course.

I may be missing something.

[Big Kev]

I'll see if I can find time later this afternoon, I'm away from my desktop at the moment and it's not something I can do on my phone.

[Stanley]

Thanks to both of you for your efforts!

[Stanley]

Biggest update ever to Ubuntu.... 315mb and you wouldn't believe how fast it downloaded and installed. Less than 3 minutes. Very impressive....

[Stanley]

Yet another 318mb download, is it becoming a regular thing now fast fibre is so widespread?

[Big Kev]

More likely an increase in security updates as AI assists hackers.

[Stanley]

I hadn't thought of that Kev.... Thanks.

[Tizer]

We've had big Ubuntu updates recently too. Mrs Tiz is on the same v.22.04 as you Stanley and she's had updates of over 300MB, made up mostly of `firmware'. I'm on v.24.01 and a 512MB `firmware' update keeps popping up but when I click on it it downloads very slowly, gets to 511MB then sticks - it will drop by a few MB, then back and forth until it eventually fails and tells me to check my internet connection (which is OK). I'll probably have to ask for help in the Ubuntu forums.

[Tizer]

I'll probably have to ask for help in the Ubuntu forums.

Well that was quick and easy! I went onto the Ubuntu forums and immediately saw that other folk on 24.01 were having the same problem. The forums have lots of users worldwide and so the problem had been noted quickly and a suitable response given. The problem was that a lot of firmware was being updated at once and the system was being overloaded. Alternative sources had been added and I was able to get my 500MB in about 5 minutes!

[Stanley]

I can remember the days when an upgrade to 512kb was a big deal, never mind 512mb!