Thanks :)

Haha thank you, appreciated it :)

Report racist posts/comments and users responsible will be dealt with.

I know of multiple people who have reported this user previously, so what would my report achieve? >

Mod/admin actions are typically per comment/post, except for the most egregious issues which can result in actions taken against user accounts.

If a comment/post breaks the community or instance rules, report it and move on.

Posting this in unrelated threads where no rules have been broken can be construed as spam and/or harassment. Please do not do it.

Changed on Sunday. HFC can now get 2000/100.

Not entirely true. HFC can do the higher speeds, albeit only up to 100mbit upstream.

Seconding ABB, very happy. Good service, great network.

Alone Australia is so much better than any other “survival” reality shows. Not even in the same league.

No

No.

In future best to not post referral links, or at least disclose this in your commentary.

Recent issues appear to be AI bots scraping lemmy content, posing as legitimate user traffic.

The difference between this and a regular DDoS is the intent behind it. I don’t believe the traffic we’re seeing is intended to be malicious as with a DDoS, but due to the incompetence of those behind the scraping… it effectively is a DDoS.

Cloudflare’s security features are serving us very well:

The red line shows the blocks put in place stopping a recent surge in hits. If the blocks weren’t in place, AZ would likely be almost entirely offline.

It works without Internet too…

Thanks, that confirms some of the changes I’ve made are working.

Thanks for posting, good to confirm it’s working as expected.

I’ve made further changes… what app do you usually use? Worth trying again now, please let me know how it goes.

I’m still working to relax the restrictions… unfortunately it’s very difficult to differentiate legitimate users traffic from the bots.

Since you guys are so active… how has the site felt for the last hour or so? Any issues?