I have some time to babysit the server now and so reenabled anonymous access. I鈥檝e also removed the prior ASN blocks, but may add those back in as needed based on various AI datacenter crawling.
Is the trial run over? When I try and share this link https://fedia.io/m/fedia/t/2266243/Anonymous-access-to-fedia-io-reenabled-for-a-trial-run with friends, they are asked to login.
Due to rising costs, declining donations, and my continued unemployment, I had to consolidate Fedia.io onto another server running the other services I manage. To mitigate the somewhat insane load that is created by scrapers and crawlers, I had to turn open access off again.
Thank you for the info :) I鈥檝e read your other posts on the matter, so I know it鈥檚 been a never-ending battle. Thank you for running this service and thank you for the reminder on donations! I鈥檓 going to swing by Ko-Fi this weekend.
For anyone else that sees this, here鈥檚 the page for all the donation options.
Out of curiosity, is there a place that we can follow along with what the expenses are for running Fedia.io? I think a lot of people, including myself, don鈥檛 really have a sense of what the costs are for running a service like this.
Something like the operating costs for infosec.exchange? Although I realize that one isn鈥檛 current either, but at least it also states that the numbers on there, are lower than the actual current costs.I鈥檇 hate for this place to ever end up in the same place as lemm.ee, where so many people were surprised by the shutdown, not realizing how dire the situation was, and how much more help was needed. Although it sounds like you鈥檙e already being smart and mitigating by consolidating things.