our web host is working on our server so there may be times when the forum can't be reached. They are working on a problem of AI bots attacking web site and most of them come out of Japan. So hang in there

Update from host

I also saw your site is struggling to load at this time, and returning a mix of 503 and 502  responses, and it's clear from your cPanel resource usage that your hosting plan is over extended at this time :

Checking your site traffic for the past few hours, I can see why as you're receiving a very high rate of traffic,

but breaking this down to the top 20 IPs it appears clear that your site is under a DDOS as while we're seeing ~140K requests in the last couple of hours, the top IP has only had 57 requests in that time.

So the attack is being distributed across thousands of unique IPs.

Therefore I have enabled Emergency DDOS protection to help block the distributed bot attack and I see your server has now stabilized and your site is loading again:

HI first off Welcome to the forum Aine. To add 2 photos to the forum banner all takes time and I as the forum owner and admin I am working on something with Celtic Woman and if that comes thru we will have to rebuild the whole banner so I am putting off adding the 2 new girls till I find out things from CW. Hope you enjoy your time on the forum and don't be afraid to ask questions someone here will beable to answer them Myself has been watching the girls since 2005 and have met and chatted with the Girls and they know me by name. So enjoy.

Hey folks putting this out there The Forum has been down but should be back in a few hours blame Japan they have been flooding the forum for the last month and today alone 454,000 hits and for the month the forum had 1,313,743 hits and most of them are from Japan. So I have had to add a firewall to the forum for a year to block out these bots and my host says alot of them are AI Bots but the stats I posted are all from Japan. So hang tight we will be back to normal soon Our hosting is not ment for 1900 people online at one time today their have been as many as 1955 hits at one time. So this firewall cost me another $167.88 to block botsI see now at 1:00 AM the forum is back to normal with 100 users online Hope the firewall work the tech from our host says they have been adding them to many accounts this month Just because of the AI bots learning.

I tried to preorder a CD off celtic collection site Man I reall hope someone messed up it is charging $60.00 to ship in to the states making it the most expensive CD I would ever buy but I will wait and see. Anyone else have this problem

Here is a video I found of her please Link any other videos you find here

https://rumble.com/v6yi196-the-county-down-caitrona-sherlock.html

These are some photos I found add yours here if you want

just so you all know the forum has been updated with the 2 new girls so please use there boards for thing for them alone

Thanks

Welcome to the world baby Éanna Bernstein 🩵 Born at 4.54am on August 16th.  It’s been a hectic first 2 weeks with our little bird but we are very much in love and we’re very lucky to be his mummy and daddy!

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