Okay, in addition to other countermeasures, I've completely blocked facebook from crawling the server!

The server was offline from yesterday until about 1:30p today, and in this chart you can see that instantly network traffic ramped up - this was 99% facebook:

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At the end there, you ...

Server speed issues are still a problem. The executive summary is that web crawlers hammer the site, pulling data, driving up server utilization. The web hosting company provides spare "burst" CPU capability which really makes browsing the site feel lightning fast, but after a while of getting ...

Hey Kevin,

Sorry for the late reply. Web site having tons of issues. It is still being hammered by foreign IP's, which is depleting all the server's spare burst capacity, so by default it is running as slow as possible. I then restarted the server yesterday to try and help it, and after that the ...

Hey Kevin, your experience with Chatty is extremely common. I used it for a lot of everyday tasks, and it seems to get more wrong than right, but with enough effort I can have it correct its errors. For many tasks/challenges, I've simply given up hope.

There are some tricks you can use to get ...

Jamie wrote: Sat Oct 11, 2025 10:49 pm Have you experimented with Gemini, or Grok?

Gemini only by accident, since I have a Google phone, it's hard to avoid.

Grok I've avoided intentionally. I honestly don't trust the musk.

I decided to have ChatGPT estimate the benefits and cost of using Claude's API to do a mega-overview rewrite. It seems like there are benefits to using the API that overcome the limitations I had with ChatGPT's GUI, and the costs are much less than I feared. I'm paying $20/mo for ChatGPT, and it ...

Awesome, glad you got it worked out. Big thanks to Jamie for contributing his knowledge. He was a JRiver user long before CMC was a thing, and I think he only begrudgingly used PowerDVD since that what CMC initially supported. I know he was pretty happy when I added JRiver support, and eventually he ...

MPC or VLC should be able to play it back just fine.

I would think PowerDVD should as well. When they talk about UHD compatibility, this is strictly with protected 4K UHD discs. The technology to play 4K files should still work, so long as you've overcome the playback restrictions - which you have ...

Unfortunately, YouTube constantly makes changes that break MPC-BE's ability to play trailers.

You MUST keep MPC-BE up to date.

I was able to spend a few hours today troubleshooting the stability issue, which seems to be related to a lack of server optimizations, combined with increased web-crawler (indexing) bots scanning the site. Too much load, combined with bad settings, and the server would just hang itself.

Hopefully ...