Recent content by bob

ModelRailroadForums.com is a free Model Railroad Discussion Forum and photo gallery. We cover all scales and sizes of model railroads. Online since 2002, it's one of the oldest and largest model railroad forums on the web. Whether you're a master model railroader or just getting started, you'll find something of interest here.


  1. bob

    Forum Slow Again

    Or simply click around a time or two before you start to reply. If you've been logged out, it will pop up when you try to go to a new page.
  2. bob

    Forum Slow Again

    Sorry about that. If it happens again, copy the text before hitting refresh and then you can just paste it back in.
  3. bob

    Forum Slow Again

    Sorry, I cannot divulge that information, it's top secret. Well, not really but I honestly don't know. It seems random to me, sometimes it asks, other times I get right in.
  4. bob

    Human Verification

    Find someone with one of those jump start battery boxes. They work great and will let you see if the battery is the issue. I have one I bought at Costco, it’s handy.
  5. bob

    Human Verification

    Exactly, once in a while it seems to choke. Click refresh, click the little box if it asks and then you'll be in. I'm gone this weekend, so it's cranked down pretty tight right now.
  6. bob

    Human Verification

    I’ve used cloudflare for years on my links directory pages. But it wasn’t as good for forums since part of how it works is caching content. That used to cause problems but now Xenforo has integrated it into the program as an option. Most forums use it.
  7. bob

    Human Verification

    Amazingly, there’s a free level that works great.
  8. bob

    2' x 4' N Scale Model Railroad

    2' x 4' N Scale Model Railroad
  9. bob

    Human Verification

    It comes and goes. I locked down Railroadforums again today since it was getting slammed with crawlers.
  10. bob

    Running Bear's September 2026 Coffee Shop

    Yes, lots of web crawlers! I'm monitoring performance though and it's holding up well. There's a lot of fine tuning needed to not block out the good crawlers yet ban the bad ones. We want to be on Google. But we don't need every bot there is crawling the site. Also trying to block the scammers...
  11. bob

    Human Verification

    It seems to be doing well. I did loosen things up a little bit, I have to let some search bots in or the place will disappear from Google etc. So it's back to having hundreds of "guests" most of which are search crawlers. But... I'm no seeing much lag. We'll keep an eye on things and see how it...
  12. bob

    Human Verification

    I hate those deceptive ads with a passion. But running Google ads is the only way I can come close to breaking even on the place. I've banned the worst ones, like online gambling and crypto, but there's only so much you can do.
  13. bob

    Forum Slow Again

    The initial human verification app worked well for about a day, but then it was met with a DDOS attack. That is a "Dedicated Denial of Service" attack where they simply overwhelm the forum. Given that problem, I went with the industry standard, Cloudflare. Can't keep that one as secret as they...
  14. bob

    Human Verification

    The spammer just kept hammering, so I went one step further. The site is now protected by Cloudflare. That means no more clicking "I am human", though you will see a Cloudflare security checkpoint at various places.
  15. bob

    Running Bear's September 2026 Coffee Shop

    Yeah, some annoyed hacker in Singapore didn't like being blocked and he is/was doing a DDOS attack on the place. Working on blocking him.
See more




Affiliate Disclosure: We may receive a commision from some of the links and ads shown on this website (Learn More Here)

Back
Top