Hi there,
I have decided to take down waveform.social. There are too many nefarious actors trying to break it and I don’t have the time or energy to keep fighting them off.
For your information: Over the pas month I have had to:
- Add various DDOS prevention measures to block unwanted (repeated) signups.
- Delete a bunch of literal white noise uploads that filled my 4TB picture storage… Twice.
- Repair Lemmy (or rather pictures) after it crashed because of full storage.
I will keep waveform.social active until Friday next week so you can pull data from here, though I expect most of it has been federated to other servers anyway.
Discord is so messy. If you come back after a few weeks or months, it’s difficult to get a handle on what’s been happening.
This is a shame. I’ll look into more robust hosting. How prohibitive a cost are we talking about roughly?
Probably around 300 USD a month
Wow