I wrote a blog post that reflects my own thoughts on how I personally view Backdrop CMS as part of the larger community and a service to those being left behind by Drupal 9+.
I like Drupal 9 in some situations and for some client and still consider myself part of the Drupal community. I wish there were some way for the Drupal community to acknowledge that Backdrop CMS might meet the needs of some Drupal 7 users and that adopting Backdrop CMS is not abandoning Drupal, it's just a small fork in the road.
Backdrop CMS - Providing a Soft Landing for Drupal 7 Sites
I'd love feedback.
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Thanks. Yep, caching for anonymous users is on. Amazonbot in particular seems to be slamming the site (31,000 or so queries so far today). I put in a robots.txt directive like this: User-...
Database problems
No custom entities, not using the search API at all, will go down my list of modules to see if any are doing anything unusual.
Database problems
Thanks, the answer looked useful except that there doesn't seem to be a 'Webform Rules' module in Backdrop. Backdrop 'Rules' therefore doesn't seem to know about submitting webforms. PS...
How to attach a file to a Webform confirmation email
Do you have caching turned on for anonymous users? Can you check access logs and see if you are currently getting consumed by one or more scrapers/bots/AI models?
Database problems
There is a dead link at the bottom of that issue to a step by step guide using Rules but here is the page from the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20200214234910/http://...
How to attach a file to a Webform confirmation email