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I think I know exactly what's happening to the xo server (TSINAH)

Very, very high chance that it's been compromised by chinks ...
mind-boggling henna new version
  04/25/24
a cpu server isn't worth it to mine crypto probably a mem...
stirring reading party
  04/25/24
uhhh isn't worth it? if you have a botnet of tens of thousan...
mind-boggling henna new version
  04/25/24
running a miner 24/7 on a server would skyrocket costs and R...
stirring reading party
  04/25/24
He's renting a VPS and wtf are you talking about? running a ...
mind-boggling henna new version
  04/25/24
(it is 2015)
odious state
  04/26/24
Databases are smart enough to index automatically on primary...
mind-boggling henna new version
  04/25/24
Tell us more about how the database is automatically indexin...
Thriller idiotic box office
  04/26/24
because the db mysql and it autoindexes primary keys
mind-boggling henna new version
  04/26/24
Looks like rach is using cpanel, and probably an outdated ve...
mind-boggling henna new version
  04/25/24
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mind-boggling henna new version
  04/25/24
How can we get him to fix this. I'm sure we're all willing t...
Slate ladyboy persian
  04/25/24
if the server is rooted, there's next to nothing that can be...
mind-boggling henna new version
  04/25/24
Huh, I thought it was confirmed that Rach is logging everyon...
Concupiscible Adulterous Factory Reset Button
  04/25/24
180 if true fuck kikes btw gas every single one
Scarlet comical chapel
  04/25/24
it'd make sense that the spooks are watching this place
mind-boggling henna new version
  04/25/24
No it doesn't. That doesn't mean it's unlikely, because they...
obsidian national security agency half-breed
  04/27/24
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electric library mediation
  04/26/24
pretty sure this theory is more plausible http://www.xoxo...
jet-lagged orchid abode jew
  04/25/24
The periods when the board is fine seem too long and unpredi...
Well-lubricated Laughsome Regret Piazza
  04/26/24
It's obviously caused by twitter links
hilarious twinkling trust fund feces
  04/26/24
lol ur dumb as fuck its very obviously a simple python ddos...
frum canary parlour
  04/26/24
wow, someone shld email rach immediately at jewNOTgiveaFUCK@...
snowy locale
  04/26/24
you really think rach is sitting there 24/7 monitoring the s...
mind-boggling henna new version
  04/26/24
There is no indexing and the DB is too big for query jobs to...
Thriller idiotic box office
  04/26/24
...
electric library mediation
  04/26/24
That's fake news. Otherwise, the index page would consistent...
mind-boggling henna new version
  04/26/24
There are increasing reports of shitty companies scraping fo...
nighttime crusty shrine
  04/27/24
that's definitely possible
mind-boggling henna new version
  04/27/24
YEah any database full of text generated by real people that...
obsidian national security agency half-breed
  04/27/24
imagine how 180 an AI trained on XO would be
pussy-eating rapist
  05/01/24


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Date: April 25th, 2024 12:16 PM
Author: mind-boggling henna new version

Very, very high chance that it's been compromised by chinks to mine bitcoin. That would explain the weird behavior of connections seeming like they're timing out. The reality is the web server is just fine, it's just that it's fighting for CPU cycles against some crypto miner, which it will never win.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47608806)



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Date: April 25th, 2024 12:27 PM
Author: stirring reading party

a cpu server isn't worth it to mine crypto

probably a memory issue with the server or an issue with the db being slow as shit b/c Rach never indexed anything. look how slow search is, which is only limited to thread titles. searching only thread titles should be instantaneous.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47608813)



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Date: April 25th, 2024 12:28 PM
Author: mind-boggling henna new version

uhhh isn't worth it? if you have a botnet of tens of thousands of compromised machines (completely free!) you can make a lot of money.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47608820)



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Date: April 25th, 2024 6:41 PM
Author: stirring reading party

running a miner 24/7 on a server would skyrocket costs and Rach would notice...otherwise this bort costs a couple of bucks per month

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47609983)



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Date: April 25th, 2024 10:51 PM
Author: mind-boggling henna new version

He's renting a VPS and wtf are you talking about? running a miner 24/7 wouldn't skyrocket costs whatsoever. You know how miners work, right? It'll probably be around 1-2MB/hr, which is far less than xo uses. Some of the threads here are literally like 10MB.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610407)



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Date: April 26th, 2024 3:13 AM
Author: odious state

(it is 2015)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610571)



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Date: April 25th, 2024 12:32 PM
Author: mind-boggling henna new version

Databases are smart enough to index automatically on primary keys and that kind of thing. There just isn't enough data on xo to completely bog down a dedicated web server, which is probably running at least 4 cores/vcpus and at least 8gb ram. Could the db have ballooned to the point where it no longer fits in ram & the OS resorts to swapping? Sure, but the much more realistic interpretation is that the system is compromised. Cpanel is essentially a rootkit (and a virus) and should never, ever be used.

Also, swapping doesn't explain why the site intermittently works fine for a few minutes at a time. Much more likely conclusion is that some process that's hogging all the cpu is being killed by the OS, but because the process is malicious, it restarts itself automatically. Hell, if it's actually a chink hacker, it's probably just a cronjob that runs every minute.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47608824)



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Date: April 26th, 2024 4:10 AM
Author: Thriller idiotic box office

Tell us more about how the database is automatically indexing on a primary key of 5,521,376 for this thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610583)



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Date: April 26th, 2024 2:06 PM
Author: mind-boggling henna new version

because the db mysql and it autoindexes primary keys

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47611462)



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Date: April 25th, 2024 12:27 PM
Author: mind-boggling henna new version

Looks like rach is using cpanel, and probably an outdated version. Just take a look at these CVEs: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1766/Cpanel.html?page=1&order=3&trc=424&sha=242cb99ceada8a39ecba543bf138dd933b646268

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47608816)



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Date: April 25th, 2024 3:09 PM
Author: mind-boggling henna new version



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47609383)



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Date: April 25th, 2024 3:40 PM
Author: Slate ladyboy persian

How can we get him to fix this. I'm sure we're all willing to pay whatever it might cost

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47609442)



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Date: April 25th, 2024 3:43 PM
Author: mind-boggling henna new version

if the server is rooted, there's next to nothing that can be done besides blocking all IPs except your own via the host's interface & then going to town trying to undo the damage done (plus fix the vulnerabilities)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47609454)



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Date: April 25th, 2024 9:33 PM
Author: Concupiscible Adulterous Factory Reset Button

Huh, I thought it was confirmed that Rach is logging everyone's IP addresses and email accounts to comply with recent amendments to the PATRIOT Act. I am pretty sure EPAH represented him in some secret criminal subpoena thing regarding that.

That disclosure seemed to coincide with the site becoming unusable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610275)



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Date: April 25th, 2024 9:38 PM
Author: Scarlet comical chapel

180 if true

fuck kikes btw gas every single one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610280)



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Date: April 25th, 2024 10:58 PM
Author: mind-boggling henna new version

it'd make sense that the spooks are watching this place

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610413)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 6:45 PM
Author: obsidian national security agency half-breed

No it doesn't. That doesn't mean it's unlikely, because they really are stupid enough to do something like that, but it's really fuckin stupid because what are you going to do with any information you gather?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47614132)



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Date: April 26th, 2024 3:17 PM
Author: electric library mediation



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47611621)



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Date: April 25th, 2024 11:18 PM
Author: jet-lagged orchid abode jew

pretty sure this theory is more plausible

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5460539&mc=9&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610434)



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Date: April 26th, 2024 12:27 AM
Author: Well-lubricated Laughsome Regret Piazza

The periods when the board is fine seem too long and unpredictable for bitcoin mining. If they had the server under control it's hard to see why they would take their foot off the gas for hours at a time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610501)



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Date: April 26th, 2024 1:30 AM
Author: hilarious twinkling trust fund feces

It's obviously caused by twitter links

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610534)



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Date: April 26th, 2024 3:55 AM
Author: frum canary parlour

lol ur dumb as fuck

its very obviously a simple python ddos script that some gook has running on a cron job (idiot closes his laptop or it goes to sleep which is why it stops intermittently)

when you see xo reset thats rach resetting the server

it would be TRIVIAL for rach to ip block this guy and it would only take like a month for him to be blocked enough that alts/vpns are no longer an issue

rach could also add cloudflare which would stop it instantly and im 100% sure poasters would help w the costs myself included

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610578)



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Date: April 26th, 2024 4:13 AM
Author: snowy locale

wow, someone shld email rach immediately at jewNOTgiveaFUCK@gmail.com

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610584)



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Date: April 26th, 2024 2:08 PM
Author: mind-boggling henna new version

you really think rach is sitting there 24/7 monitoring the server? he's not.

the MUCH more likely response is that there's a nefarious process that's consuming tons of cpu cycles that eventually gets killed and then restarted after a while

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47611468)



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Date: April 26th, 2024 4:20 AM
Author: Thriller idiotic box office

There is no indexing and the DB is too big for query jobs to finish timely. It runs a query for "last posted in" to populate your main page

Here is the thread from when rach last wiped the boart when this same issue was happening.

https://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1&mc=43&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47610588)



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Date: April 26th, 2024 3:16 PM
Author: electric library mediation



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47611618)



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Date: April 26th, 2024 5:01 PM
Author: mind-boggling henna new version

That's fake news. Otherwise, the index page would consistently take a long time to load, but it doesn't. There is indexing being done. Another possibility is that the site bogs down when too many searches are being run, to the point where nothing loads, because of the concurrent db operations on unindexed columns in tables, e.g., text search

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47611824)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 11:46 AM
Author: nighttime crusty shrine

There are increasing reports of shitty companies scraping forums and accidentally DDOSing them

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ceco4f/claude_ai_name_and_shame/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47613087)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 6:36 PM
Author: mind-boggling henna new version

that's definitely possible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47614121)



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Date: April 27th, 2024 6:51 PM
Author: obsidian national security agency half-breed

YEah any database full of text generated by real people that isn't paywalled is subject to scraping right now. These AI companies are all datapigs trying to steal free content.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47614149)



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Date: May 1st, 2024 3:10 AM
Author: pussy-eating rapist (ELIMINATE TWO THIRDS OF THE SCHOOL DAY)

imagine how 180 an AI trained on XO would be

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5521376&forum_id=2#47623991)