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ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 12:22 pm
by Neill Cooper
Is anyone else having problems with accessing the ECF rating website, and the ECF LMS?
Re: ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 12:24 pm
by Paul Cooksey
same for me
Re: ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 12:28 pm
by Neill Cooper
Both now working again!
Re: ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 12:55 pm
by IM Jack Rudd
I was having trouble with the entire ECF site. I put it down to my being in Singapore.
Re: ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 10:36 am
by John Upham
IM Jack Rudd wrote: ↑Sat Feb 28, 2026 12:55 pm
I put it down to my being in Singapore.
Your going to Singapore brought down the ECF rating database?
Re: ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2026 12:01 pm
by Neill Cooper
Gone again:
Connection timed out Error code 522
Visit cloudflare.com for more information.
2026-03-24 11:59:03 UTC
Re: ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2026 3:15 pm
by Carl Hibbard
Neill Cooper wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2026 12:01 pm
Gone again:
Connection timed out Error code 522
Visit cloudflare.com for more information.
2026-03-24 11:59:03 UTC
Here or at ECF?
Re: ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2026 6:27 am
by Neill Cooper
ECF
Re: ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2026 7:31 am
by Carl Hibbard
They may need to block certain ASN's as I am doing now due to abuse in order to get better performance.
Re: ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2026 12:53 pm
by Steve Emmerton
It's a problem that the ECF are aware of. As of this morning everything appears to be working ok again.
Re: ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2026 4:08 pm
by Malcolm Peacock
It happened again today. The server was hit by a large volume of requests. Sometimes its search engines crawling, sometimes is data collection for machine learning and sometimes it is hackers. Mostly it was the LMS that was being hit. Apparently they put cloud flair into attack mode temporarily ( it asks you to say you are human ) , and will be blocking one source of attack. Running any web site is a pain these days. It didn't look lack hacking this time - just crawling ( I use robots.txt to ask crawlers to avoid most of the site, but they don't always do it)
Re: ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2026 6:58 am
by Carl Hibbard
If the ECF want assistance on this one just drop me an email.
Re: ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2026 3:48 pm
by John Upham
Malcolm Peacock wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2026 4:08 pm
It happened again today. The server was hit by a large volume of requests. Sometimes its search engines crawling, sometimes is data collection for machine learning and sometimes it is hackers. Mostly it was the LMS that was being hit. Apparently they put cloud flair into attack mode temporarily ( it asks you to say you are human ) , and will be blocking one source of attack. Running any web site is a pain these days. It didn't look lack hacking this time - just crawling ( I use robots.txt to ask crawlers to avoid most of the site, but they don't always do it)
You might wish to take action with the firewall configuration but I assume that the ECF is not permitted to manage its own servers firewalls.
Re: ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2026 6:07 pm
by Carl Hibbard
It is mainly volume abuse - we got 25 million requests last month which is excessive for a chess forum.
Re: ECF rating website - Connection timed out
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2026 6:12 pm
by John Upham
Carl Hibbard wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 6:07 pm
It is mainly volume abuse - we got 25 million requests last month which is excessive for a chess forum.
I used to get this on the BCN web site and was able to tune the WordPress Pro firewall to block certain domains. China provided much of the traffic to be blocked.