thank you! and sorry for the trouble.

it should be fixed now. I’d prefer if you did use it and let me know if it happens again.

I just checked and it was indeed the firewall. The app you use causes a lot of 404’s which crowdsec interprets as crawling and so blocked your IP. I unblocked and working on fixing crowdsec so it stops happening.

The instance is running, I’m guessing you tripped my overanxious firewall. Can you DM me your username and IP?

There was a big price increase a month or two ago that affected existing servers. I think this is recognizing that Hetzner just can’t acquire new servers (particularly memory) at anywhere close to what they could before. RAM prices are up about 400% in the past year and rising, and I think even server chassis and CPUs are being largely soaked up by the mesoscale datacenter builds.

Net net, this sucks. And my expectation is that Hetzner will still be the cheapest game in town by about the same percentages as before. It the costs keep going up, I think we will see the fediverse starting to struggle.

Between the absolute crush of bot registrations and the spiraling costs, I have been contemplating moving to a required donation for new accounts.

Turns out that wasn’t the problem. The problem was a bug in the lemmy release. I’ve been able to get that fixed now, though

ok, I found the problem. The latest version of lemmy required a change to the web server config, which I did, however I neglected to restart the web server so that config change could take effect. D’oh. amateur hour. I’m very sorry about that.

It seems to have broke after I upgraded to the latest version of lemmy. I will try to figure out why and fix it.