Keeping Available the Site at All Times
Informal arrangements and crowdfunding keep our work available despite resistance (including from people who break the law)
At the end of last month and earlier this month we combatted DDoS attacks, which we eventually got under control (technical mitigation or amelioration by technical means). Days later while I was away and my sister gave birth there was an incident in the datacentre - an incident reportedly fully resolved within less than a day. They're still monitoring this:
Monitoring - The carrier has repaired the service and the normal levels of resilience of the network have resumed. We consider the event cleared, but will continue a period of monitoring.
Jul 11, 2026 - 00:04 BSTUpdate - We are currently dealing with a issue on one of our fibre connections. Any services using it have failed over to redundant resources but the network should be considered "At Risk" while this fault is ongoing.
The carrier has now identified the issue and is working to carry out the necessary repairs.
Jul 10, 2026 - 16:55 BSTInvestigating - We are currently dealing with a issue on one of our fibre connections. Any services using it have failed over to redundant resources but the network should be considered "At Risk" while this fault is ongoing.
Jul 10, 2026 - 10:21 BST
Over the years the site was hosted by at least 4 different parties, however the latest one is by far the most reliable. It is also quite affordable. Budget was always a key parameter; our community does not wish to run large databases that cost a lot in terms of RAM and CPU. If done right (static pages), whole page ought not take more than a tenth of a second to "generate" (statistically it is fast); the overhead should be the network (latency), not the server.
In the near future we'll show how the hosting party was subjected to abusive threats by people desperate to extinguish information while recognising that the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) does not exercise control over the entire planet and lying about addresses of people is punishable by law, not just a total waste of Canadians' tax money. Calling oneself "autistic" does not exempt one from the law. It is unfair that efforts to censor us have cost so much money to taxpayers; politicians ought to be aware of this. █