BoarAvoir [they/them]

Believe it or not, the server issues on March 5th were unrelated to the size of the mega.

We occasionally get hit with large waves of bots scraping the site, just doing full pageloads for every. individual. comment. on every single post, which DDOS’es the most fragile part of the server stack, the frontend/UI (normally, initial pageload is only done once and then navigating around the site just fetches the data needed from the API which is much more stable). Once the fresh batch of bots were blocked it came back up (and then the mega was rotated hours later)

The comment count does seem to impact the performance of the page in people’s browsers though, eventually (especially with lots of embedded content)

Lemmygrad is a good bet, though official announcements of this sort should also be posted to https://toots.matapacos.dog/@hexbear

Edit: I see FloridaBoi beat me to it.

Announcement post here with a brief explanation of what happened