I’d been using the same theme on this blog for almost 13 years without any real updates. After upgrading to WordPress 7.0 I decided it was probably time to freshen up. Right now I’m trying out the free version of GeneratePress which seemed to be the closest to what I had been using to at least make the initial transition smooth. I’ve still got quite a few things to tinker with, but at least for now things seem to be working for the most part. Bear with me as I finally “get current.”
Month: June 2026
Cloudflare Proxied DNS
This past April I found my Piwigo photo sites getting pounded by crawler bots. “Attacks” like these had happened in the past but apparently my newly expanded bandwidth (thanks to my Frontier fiber upgrade) allowed for a lot more in/out traffic to hit my server and it was slowing things down significantly with the increased the load. Looking at my server stats this apparently started in February but I hadn’t noticed until now.
I first tried a bot-blocking extension for Piwigo but it couldn’t keep up with the flood. I switched to Cloudflare as my domain registrar back in 2024 when Google sold its Domains business to Squarespace. Cloudflare offers a lot of other free services, some of which I took advantage of (like e-mail routing), but it had always been on my list to investigate the other stuff. Apparently now was the time to switch over to Proxied DNS.