Hi All
It doesn't help that I am on hols on a rubbish internet connection, but for now I think I have solved some of the issues making this forum go crazy slow and give terrible messages.
In short the disk ran out because someone is running a load of scripts through mulitple proxies in the US against another forum hosted on this server. Not my software and all about bicycles.
Clearly malicious as the forum is for local cycling groups and of no interest to people in the US.
The massive load is killing the server and generating huge logs which eventually filled the disk so it ran out of space. It has only taken less than a day to fill a few Gb up!
For now I have disabled their forum, but it still doesn't stop the millions of requests arriving at this server.
It is one of our smallest machines as it doesn't host much, so it the usual tactic of just having enough power to overcome such attacks isn't there.
We will see tomorrow if they give up and maybe turn them back on.
In the meantime - thank you to those who emailed through to let us know there was an issue (Fullchat to name just one)
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