cross post from our friendly slack;

some info on our servers, traffic and ddos over the last 24 or so;

[8:29] 
if you’ve been accessing the site regularly, you’ll have noticed slower performance over the last 24hours - for the sysadmin inclined, we were seeing heaps of apache processes maxing out the server memory. We’ve taken two steps to keep the site running smoothly, both generally good ideas in the event of a sluggish server;

[8:30] 
1. we’ve resized the server to provide more power (memory and cpu, and disk space which we don’t need!) - and incidentally as part of this process we decided to shift from rackspace to digital ocean - lots of small reasons added up to this bigger decision

[8:32] 
2. We use ‘Cloudflare’ as a tool, and we upped the security settings to deflect the ddos - if you’ve been ‘browser checked’ on the way to your dashboard, that’s the good people of cloudflare suspecting you’re a nasty…. suspicious folks those cloudflarians, but it helps keep the server running smoothly :slightly_smiling_face:

[8:33] 
we’re monitoring closely, and if the traffic continues or grows, we’ll use further tools to keep everything online :slightly_smiling_face:

[8:33] 
that’s it for a system update - now back to the blockchain for me!