Starting today, hard-disk servers set their own read limits, at the point where their disks get the most reading done. On three servers where the first limits were tighter than the disks needed, this let 1.6 to 2.4 times more data be read per second. Yesterday's per-account read limits (announcement 725) made small reads on shared disks ... Read More »
Your seedboxes and storage boxes kept running, your data was never touched, and the client area has worked normally since 21:00 UTC on 6 November. On the evening of 6 November a denial-of-service attack flooded our website from about 4,400 addresses in more than 1,400 networks. From about 20:14 to 21:00 UTC the client area (billing, the ... Read More »
Small reads on a shared disk answer much faster on servers with the new read limits: on three busy servers among the first to get them, the wait for a small read fell 93 to 97%. A shared disk serves everyone on the server from one queue. Until now one account reading flat out, a big library scan or a full recheck, could fill that queue, and ... Read More »
Your Virsilipas key now takes images: send a screenshot, a photo or a picture of a page to the default model and it reads it. Virsilipas is named after the singer's song-chest, and the chest has learned to look. An image is billed as the input tokens the model counts for it, never more than 1,024 for one picture, so on default an image costs ... Read More »
