For about the past week I have been unable to get on to the VAMWorld site on the internet. Today when I tried to get on I got the message "SSL handshake failed Error code 525." Are they doing something with the site and is everyone having this trouble or is it something that has to do with my computer?
I have no problem with VAMworld. Try just typing it into your browser. I can't seem to get into Error-Ref.
It's working. It's a non secure site, so some software protections try to prevent you from going there.
I just tried to get on again and I was able to get on. It must have been the site itself. The anti-virus protection I have on my computer has been on there a while before I started having this problem so those can't be the problem.
It was being scraped by AI Bots at the tune of over 60K hits per hour and went to 100% CPU as a result. Thursday I shut it down and while I wasn't at work looked into how to improve the situation. I eventually added a Cloudflare firewall and SSL certificates. I needed the certificate for Cloudflare to work properly, it turns out. Anyway, it's back to the land of the living as of about midnight Saturday morning my time. Clearing cache and cookies may help if you are still having problems, although there were several users back online without my help when I got up Saturday morning. It looks like Cloudflare is doing its job, having blocked about 1.5 million accesses after I got it configured. More detail in the thread on the VW discussion forum "OT Broken forum".
