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 »
Update, 9 November 2026: a stall in the read limits If writes on your server froze in the last few days, I found the cause. On the kernel our servers run today, the read limits have a fault: in some cases they stop every write to /home on a server, so uploads hang and clients stop saving while the disks sit idle. A restart clears it, and the ... 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 »
