The Sites Should Be Very Fast Again
Yesterday the final maintenance work (for summer) was completed at the datacentres, so no outages are expected any time soon. So far this year we've had an uptime (in IRC, Git, Web, and Geminispace) of almost 100% (more than 99.99% for sure). Accessing those services from the far east isn't an issue, but it's not the same as accessing them from the UK (with round trip of tenth of a second, including Web payloads, not just TCP/IP).
Some days ago we wrote about DDoS-like traffic directed against us, slowing down the sites. That issue is now resolved. We'll try to keep it that way. We have important articles in the "pipeline". █