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 »