Sunday, March 23, 2025

2025-02-23: Continuous performance issues due to bot attacks

As of 2025-03-23, the ISFDB server continues to experience major performance issues due to continuous bot attacks. We are working on mitigating them, but it's still very much a work in progress. We'll post another update when we know more.

 

2025-03-24 edit: Disabling anonymous access to the ISFDB Wiki seems to have stopped the bad bots, at least for now. We will continue monitoring the situation.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

ISFDB server maintenance 2025-03-19 at noon EDT

The ISFDB server will be taken down for maintenance at noon EDT. It may be down for up to an hour while the database is being optimized.

 

12:30pm edit: The server is back up as of 12:30pm.

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

2025-03-12 ISFDB server problems

As of 11am EDT 2025-03-13, the ISFDB Wiki is effectively unavailable due to a bot attack. Regular database pages can be accessed, but take up to half a minute to load.

 

2:15pm edit:  Performance is still spotty due to ongoing bot issues, but the Wiki should be accessible.