I have just banned three IP addresses that appear to have been making a concerted effort to request the same files over and over and over again, clearly not a user so they are banned. Having just looked up the IP's I've banned, 3 out of the 4 IP's I've added tonight are from Ukraine or Moscow. They have all been making concerted efforts to register lots of accounts and access member data.

The issue appears to have started on the 12th when we exceeded our maximum allowed process count for quite a while. As a consequence the hosting account has been throttled. I'm hoping that the throttle will be removed when the server notices that we're now behaving ourselves.

Now I've banned a bunch of bad clients, I'm going to re-enable the search form, but the member profiles and registration scripts will remain offline for at least tonight.