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Continued growth of site over the last month - often over 20,000 concurrent users - has pushed the old DB slaves to, and past, their limits. During those times we've seen peaks on MD@H of 1400MB/s (11.2Gb/s)! Splitting off the API onto its own server hasn't had as much of an impact as we had hoped either.
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If you are on Discord you might have already read that a new much better server has entered the fight, unfortunately it is acting as a slave DB to the old master DB for now, so you may see some desyncs and errors - hopefully less than before.
We've prioritised getting the site back up today due to time constraints on people, but we are going to have some planned downtime coming up in the near future where we will be moving the new superawesomeserver™ into the main DB role and shifting the webserver onto the more capable hardware we have available and hopefully resolving the API caching issue in the progress. In addition to this we will be lowering the API rate limit slightly to lower the impact of automated downloads on real time users. Reminder than going over rate limits will result in tempoary automated bans, so please be aware that limits will be changing soon and take steps to avoid the banhammer.
We were going to be saving $140 a month by removing the old cache server that was feeding MD@H and legacy reader, but we've had to reinvest significant funds into paying part of the cost of new superawesomeserver™ so your continued support is appreciated!
As stated in a previous announcement the last ad campaign resulted in two month's worth of costs being covered. Going with the general acceptance of the last ads we may run further ads at some point to cover future bills.
Edit: You aren't logged into someone else's account. It's just a cache glitch from DDG. Almost any action on site will update it to your own account.
If you are on Discord you might have already read that a new much better server has entered the fight, unfortunately it is acting as a slave DB to the old master DB for now, so you may see some desyncs and errors - hopefully less than before.
We've prioritised getting the site back up today due to time constraints on people, but we are going to have some planned downtime coming up in the near future where we will be moving the new superawesomeserver™ into the main DB role and shifting the webserver onto the more capable hardware we have available and hopefully resolving the API caching issue in the progress. In addition to this we will be lowering the API rate limit slightly to lower the impact of automated downloads on real time users. Reminder than going over rate limits will result in tempoary automated bans, so please be aware that limits will be changing soon and take steps to avoid the banhammer.
We were going to be saving $140 a month by removing the old cache server that was feeding MD@H and legacy reader, but we've had to reinvest significant funds into paying part of the cost of new superawesomeserver™ so your continued support is appreciated!
As stated in a previous announcement the last ad campaign resulted in two month's worth of costs being covered. Going with the general acceptance of the last ads we may run further ads at some point to cover future bills.
Edit: You aren't logged into someone else's account. It's just a cache glitch from DDG. Almost any action on site will update it to your own account.
