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I think we're going to see this more often as smaller hosts get overwhelmed with trying to deal with a growing user base. I've seen some posts already about a few struggling. I suspect more than a few people spun up instances without thinking things all the way through.
Yeah. A lot of people love the idea of federated group of people providing free service, but there is a cost to running servers at any decent volume.
They weren't really having trouble user/load wise, they were fine, everything loaded pretty fast, almost no downtime.
The weird thing is that everything was going fine, like one second it's here, the next, it's gone, no DNS redirect, nothing.