At least for this time, it appears some child wrote a bad crawling bot, heavily hammering the instance with requests for posts, comments and stuff - and i think they knew as they hide behind a vpn. For now things should be better as i did some short term measures and i am trying to better prevent such actions better.. hoping for the best.

Its people like this who should donate lol.

I kinda lost track on my Anubis deployments, it appears here i only have a useragent blacklist so its time to give it prio for lemmy as well. However i worry whether that is sufficient.

(while things are much healthier again, i acknowledge that at least in the webui, its not as fast as it should be)

time to donate more to milan, to get a bigger cable? ;)

Same here. :( Austria

Today it is nearly unusable, on most days it's just very slow.

Yes. For me too. Been thinking of switching to another instance TBH. :/

I just came back to Lemmy in general and was surprised how slow it was for me. Rather happy I'm not the only one

Yeah, definitely not just you. There's a thread from 2 months ago https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/59450718 which I think is the same issue, but I really don't know.

Really hope they can get to the bottom of this, something's definitely going wrong somewhere in the chain.