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i didnt even know there was such a switch. Good to know (a little off topic: is there a list with command options?)

Did you: check a different keyboard? Try another usb port? Tried the Keyboard on another computer? Checked the Keymap in your os? (Sometimes it remaps keys to other functions...sometimes programs do that too)

I can sum up this community and why i like it in two words: no mobbing Its always amazing to me how nice and understanding everyone is. Each time the Site has problems i get an unexpected flood of sympathy (and each time im expecting a mob raging about me beeing unable to give them what they want). It has to added this is a forum and they are normaly worse than the debian mailinglist I want to thank each one of you for keeping it that way. BTW im still all for a Kerbelcon to finaly meet a bunch of those great people (maybe some devs too as side effect). I would even organize it in my hometown Hamburg/Germany if i had official support by squad for it. (Maybe the community could ask for such a thing? You have a louder voice than i do) Other News: I just found the 1.2.1 release post so its now added to spacedock.

in other news: im happy to see a steady flow of $1 donations to come in. I guess its thanks to the efforts on facebook. So this is a good place to thank eveyone donating: you make SpaceDock beeing a thing I also want to ask everyone to do some publicity in their respective social bubbles (e.g. twitter, twitch,youtube,...) so i can continue to improve the site.

enough with the sorry allready. we belive you

I think its maintining a modlist or something. He did ask me a few mont ago for permition to use the SpaceDock API and allready wrote a PM. So i file it as misshab. Its also my fault for not having any throtteling for mass ammounts of req. from one IP. I now have that BTW If you have some root server and you keep dishing out http requests as fast as you can its simply called DOS (in this case unintentional)

Adblockers remove certain size images from webpages because these are the usual ad sizes. Images on SpaceDock are resized depending on your screensize, so if you are unlucky they have the exact same size as some banner ads and get removed by your adblocker. Note: SpaceDock has no Ads so its safe to add an exception for the site.(im all about protecting your data and not leaking it to other companys)

One Thread keept grabbing all the resources, so my conclution is: one host is bonbing the site with requests (maybe kspmods again?) I flushed the system but theres nothing i can do with the resources i have to hande that kind of load. But i will see if i can make firewall rules or throttel req/s Also my Internet at home is down since mid last week, so my response times are higher than usual. Bottom line: I know and i do what i can. Update: Found the person causing it. May the owner of http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.fr step forward and collect his bucket of blame? 250 000 Page requests in 24 h are a bit much Update 2: In addition to blocking the above until its resolved i tuned mod avasive. So if you get 403 forbidden trough normal usage please post here so i can raise the limit if needed.

ddos traffic doesnt magicly apear at the target server. so its possible that interlinks between the sources and the targets will get saturated. i had a spicke with a huge amount of non spacedock website related traffic (havaent looked at ckan traffic). The server got about double the traffic for a few days. I havent looked into the cause that deeply because it went away. Im fairly certain that there isnt anything i could have done to make it better. atm my hopes for me beeing able to afford a new server with a bit more reserves (the current one is running at its cpu limit nearly all the time) Im also hoping for more helping hands in the development of the new codebase thats been in the work for half a year now. Theres mainly frontend stuff remaining (js/html/css) so if you want to help join us in our irc channel (see spacedock.infpo for infos)

on?

im feeling watched because dumb gunicorn (python runtime) is only using one core i did some restructuring based on the idea of having a blanacer and multiple instances of the site runnign on the same server. time will tell if the site explodes less first checks indicate: went from 100% on one core to 10% per core with 160 ppl on the site hammering away. so thats a win i would cautiously say

exactly

I always need space to rock. In other words: Donations are welcome so are you Btw im planing to rent a new server for spacedock next month (once i can afford the 100€ setup fee) If youre interrested in Specs (the main thing is to switch to SSDs): https://www.hetzner.de/ie/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex41ssd

1.2 added to spacedock. AAAND the site explodes

Between 26 October 2016 23:00 hours (CEST) and 27 October 2016 05:00 hours (CEST) we are planning the change the switch corresponding to your server(s): During the changeover, your server will not be available for a maximum of 5 minutes. Just so you know.

When would be a good time to add the new release to SpaceDock? Tomorrow (estimated 24h beforehand) or after its release? Because there has been a Prerelease out for a while now i would like to think that verifying its compatibility with the final relase is a small task. So the ability to upload new Versions early would gurantee that everything is ready beforehand. On the other hand users will get a outdated vetrsion warning fromt he moment i add the new version. (This postis for mod Authors)

Goto changelog in your mod. Seems like you cant delete the newest ver. Workarround: upload the last working ver and remove the old one afterwards.

Back home and DNS updated to remove the Digital Ocean nodes from the system. Ive to figure out how to replace them now. Update: Seems like ive to rent another Server. This sadly results in more cost so.... If you havent donated: Your monthly buck makes SpaceDock not suck! (We need T-Sihrts with that) If you have: many thank yous to you (sorry ran out of creativity there)

bandwidth isnt the problem here. its mostly the inefficient website code itself. (not the file transfer). And BTW US law still doesnt apply to spacedock.

not easy to say but a topend Intel CPU 32GB RAM and a bunch of Drives dont cut it anymore :/ So im now looking at something with more cores/cpus 64GB RAM and a bunch of SSDs (Bandwidth usage is arround 200-300Mbit/s 24/7) It is possible to split the site onto multiple servers (especialy for the file server part) But that requires my trust in the server owner to not simply disapear The currewnt production code is a heavily modified version of the old kerbalstuff code. It has some bottlenecks we arent able to fix (Its mostly single threaded and does a lot of DB querys). We are working on a compleate rewrite for some time now but i dont have enough spare time to finish the frontend. P.S. I redirected all the traffic arround the first caching instance as temp fix. I hope the server sint exploding in my face :/ PPS please tell me if the site is doing better now (loading timeouts/errors, corupted zips etc.)

On top of all the problems the Infrastreucture is giving me i now was informed, that i lose my sponsored Server nodes. I hope they will be available till im home so i can alter the DNS in time :/ IF youre starting to get 404 errors i advise you to to use http://kerbalspaceprogram.eu until i fix stuff. I also need to rent another Server as replacement (especialy with the a new release coming up). Fun times....

im sorry. im still on vacation and cant do anything using this inet con. will be back on monday and promise to fix stuff. about the css problems: there where some site breaking things happening (before i left) so i did a quick fix that isnt pretty but works (for now). most importently: i want the site to be working and it angers me, that im not able to fix it asap.

@Jeb Jawkins if youre in Germany too you might consider trasfering the euro to my bank account directly (so nothing gets eaten up by patreon and international transfers) And (if you didnt look into that yet) you might want to see if youre able to attend the 33C3 (Chaos Comunication Congress) in Hamburg (27th-30th December) in Hamburg. I will be able to give you Club Mate if youre attending. BTW if someone else is planing to Attend the Congress (Largest european Hacker gathering) we could have a nice meetup

yes i was in a rush when i typed it. just use http://kerbalspaceprogram.eu But remember: it icgnores all caching layers. SO the server has to build every page you request from scratch. So please please only use it if the normal url doesnt work for the particular url/down-/upload. i promise ill find a more permanent solution after im back in civilazation. this post has been brought to you via some flaky modem speed (4.5kb/s) connection thats only available on the sidee of some dusty road if i make some modern dance pose. @Jeb Jawkins I appreciate youre donation. If youre in Hamburg (Germany) at some point in the future ill buy you a drink. Im on social wellfare for the past years (but have a (not so well) payed job starting next month). BTW what i did: i piped all data between servers trough an heavily encrypted VPN as HTTPS packets. It seems that the Digital Ocean Computing node coudnt handle the encryption of so many packets so it did packet drops. I for now rerouted the traffic trough the open internet to my core server. thats no permanent solution but one that will hold until im back with time to fix it.

uhm try http://kerbalspaceprogram.eu its sort of a direct line ignoring the cache. note: its only if the spacedock.info doesnt work for uploads because it puts the server on a lot of stress.