This should be the last update of this one-week saga, but I just wanted to let y’all know that the issue has been resolved.

The issue itself turned out to be a bunch of bots hammering kbin.earth with requests, causing it to slow down and crash. I’ve been able to put up security measures to block them, and within the past 24 hours, I have blocked 100,000 requests, which, to put it in perspective, we usually get somewhere around 700,000 requests in a day. This turns out to be a reduction of about 14%.

Additionally, I’ve also upgraded the server during all this, and moved it so only kbin.earth is running on the server (no other services).

Just as a general reminder, if you ever notice any issues or anything weird going on, do not hesitate to reach out.

Also, since @Oofnik brought this up earlier, I was able to get set up on a few donation sites, so if you’d like to help pay for server costs, you can use one of the sponsor links on the About page.

One last thing, I wanted to publicly welcome @aasatru, to the kbin.earth mod team 🎉. Thanks for stepping up :)