Site performance, Server errors, outages and tunings

[Like Ra]

Getting this every other click - if I page back and go again everything is ok

Something new.... I can't think of any possible explanation so far...

Does anybody else see this "intermittent ban"?

The only thing I can advise so far is cleaning the cookies and site data.

Shift-Reload?

[Like Ra]

Aha! Just got the same thing! Reload helps, but...

What the heck???????

I have not made any changes since yesterday besides robot.txt, but it should not affect site access at all.

[Like Ra]

Just rebuilt the internal MyBB cache. I do not see this error anymore. Please confirm?

[Like Ra]

Still getting this message.

I have another theory. All connections are coming from the same IP-addresses now - CloudFlare. If you ban a user, the IP address will be added to the banned list. And that's what might trigger this ban message. Trying some workarounds ...

[Like Ra]

I removed banned CF IP's from the list. I hope it helps.

Mmmm... banning users becomes more difficult ...

[Like Ra]

Aha! There is a setting "Add banned IP filter" - I just set it to "No"!

[madjack]

Aha! There is a setting "Add banned IP filter" - I just set it to "No"!

That seems to have fixed it!

😁

I shall monitor but all appears to be ok now

MJ

[Like Ra]

Aha! There is a setting "Add banned IP filter" - I just set it to "No"!

That seems to have fixed it!

What actually fixed that was removing two Cloudflare IP-addresses from the ban list.
And the setting above is to prevent adding such IP-addresses to the ban list in the future, when I ban spammers.

[Like Ra]

New kernel, new Ruffle (SDT is still not working 😠). The server was rebooted.

[Like Ra]

WordPress is updated.