A faulty platform update can now reach at most five servers a day, so it meets a handful of servers long before it could reach yours. Last week it went the other way. Our platform build with the new read limits reached 76 servers, 43% of our fleet, in three days, and on three of them it stopped writes until the servers were restarted. The ... Read More »
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: read limits switched off for now The read limits are switched off on every server. 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. That took whole servers down, so the limits ... Read More »
