Cloudflare activated

[stevea]

Based on Opus' suggestion, I did some reading about it. I never really thought about it, but your IP address would have to change if you took your laptop/tablet/phone to another location, using a different Wi-Fi--for the reason that different internet providers are probably assigned different banks of IP addresses. Cloudflare would somehow have to account for that kind of thing.

[Dude111]

Its incredible the last few days the attacks are insane on many sites!

Paul had over 70,000 Guests the other day so he lowered the limit of blocking guests seeing things...... Now it almost says it all the time for guests (Wont let them view)

My friend Skip on hipforums is now being hit hard.......

This seems like purposefull attacks!!!!! -- Like someone is doing it on purpose!!


EDIT:

Skip said this today on hipforums

Originally Posted by skip

Yup, they're definitely attacking us today, I've seen the evidence now.

I feel aweful

[TJ]

Originally Posted by opus

ChatGTP says that’s normal—

Q: Why do I keep getting a new ip address?

A: That’s actually pretty normal—most people don’t have a permanently fixed IP address. Here are the main reasons yours keeps changing:


(I won’t bother listing the tech reasons it gave. You can go check on your own if you want)

I've had the same IP address with Comcast/Xfinity since at least December 2024. I think it would be unusual to get a new IP address every few hours. I guess it depends on the ISP.

I would be curious if you get the repeated challenges on any other sites such as https://www.webhostingtalk.com or https://yarn.co/ . These sites probably have the managed challenges set to daily or maybe hourly. I'm guessing you were just being flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare because of the high volume of searches.

Originally Posted by Dude111

Its incredible the last few days the attacks are insane on many sites!

Paul had over 70,000 Guests the other day so he lowered the limit of blocking guests seeing things...... Now it almost says it all the time for guests (Wont let them view)

My friend Skip on hipforums is now being hit hard.......

This seems like purposefull attacks!!!!! -- Like someone is doing it on purpose!!


EDIT:

Skip said this today on hipforums

I feel aweful

The bots and AI training crawlers/scrapers are taking over the web! Paul and Skip should be using Cloudflare if they aren't already. I didn't get any challenges on their forums.

AI Overview

As of early 2026, bots account for 51% to 52% of all global web traffic. This marks a significant milestone where automated, non-human activity has officially surpassed human internet usage.

This surge is primarily driven by the rapid growth of generative AI, data scraping, and automated agents, according to the 2025 Imperva Bad Bot Report and 2026 AI Bot Impact Reports.

Key Data on Bot Traffic (2026):
Total Bot Traffic: 51-52% of global traffic.
Bad Bots: 37% of total traffic, used for scraping, fraud, and credential stuffing.
Good Bots: 14% of traffic (search engine crawlers, monitoring tools).
AI Crawler Growth: Dedicated AI training crawlers now make up 45.4% of all AI bot traffic as of Feb 2026, surpassing mixed-purpose bots.

Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says | TechCrunch

[Dude111]

Yea its all very sad Todd

Its getting harder to have fun out here.........

[opus]

Firstly, no sign of Cloudflare here for me since Saturday morning (If it just checked the first time I came in that would be normal fine. It was when it checked every time I clicked something while here it got annoying.

Originally Posted by TJ

I would be curious if you get the repeated challenges on any other sites such as https://www.webhostingtalk.com or https://yarn.co/ . These sites probably have the managed challenges set to daily or maybe hourly. I'm guessing you were just being flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare because of the high volume of searches.

I just clicked on both of them and went straight through, no sign of Cloudflare.

Originally Posted by TJ

I've had the same IP address with Comcast/Xfinity since at least December 2024. I think it would be unusual to get a new IP address every few hours. I guess it depends on the ISP.

You’re gonna have to take that argument up with ChatGTP. It’s the one who said it

[opus]

I guess I’ll hesitantly say whatever was happening is gone. I haven’t changed anything, either settings-wise or search-wise, so either it was something TJ fixed or it vanished as mysteriously as it began.

[Dude111]

Im glad its ok now Opus,we dont wanna lose you honey!!

[TJ]

Does anyone think Cloudflare's verification process is too slow? I received the below message. I've never experienced a 90 second wait time on here or any other site which uses them. It's normally about 5 seconds or less. It should be automatic depending on the browser you are using. Anyone getting the challenges more than once per week is either having their IP address change or they are being flagged as suspicious.

I think the initial wait and pain of a 5-10 second delay to filter out the many bots is worth it if it runs faster overall for everyone. I can see it's getting more page views since I started verifiying everyone from the US.

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Your new Cloudfair verification process is too slow. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just sits there. It's not only you, other sites also have this problem. Can you find another "verification" company or process? 90 seconds is about as fast as it can verify (when it works properly)

[stevea]

Originally Posted by TJ

Does anyone think Cloudflare's verification process is too slow? No. I received the below message. I've never experienced a 90 second wait time on here or any other site which uses them. It's normally about 5 seconds or less. Correct--it did that 90 second thing only once recently. They were probably having a problem. It should be automatic depending on the browser you are using. It is--I'm rarely challenged. Anyone getting the challenges more than once per week is either having their IP address change or they are being flagged as suspicious.

I think the initial wait and pain of a 5-10 second delay to filter out the many bots is worth it if it runs faster overall for everyone. Agree. I can see it's getting more page views since I started verifiying everyone from the US.

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Your new Cloudfair verification process is too slow. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just sits there. It's not only you, other sites also have this problem. Can you find another "verification" company or process? 90 seconds is about as fast as it can verify (when it works properly)

[Dude111]

It sad people need stuff like this,it just makes it harder to connect and all.......

[biffbronson]

[Dude111]

Give TODD your IP buddy and he will add it to cloudfares allow list

[TJ]

What page were you viewing or what were you doing at the time? I've never seen that message before.

The only IP addresses which are denied access are bots.

[Dude111]

I hope its just a temp issue...