Malazan Empire: Silencer - Viewing Profile - Malazan Empire

Hi all,

So to start, I think it is important to acknowledge that while I do check in on the site from time-to-time (usually without logging in), I'm simply not visiting frequently these days. That's on me, and while it's largely been due to the site looking after itself well enough with other users generally able to alert me to anything amiss, obviously it's not the same thing as using the site day-to-day.

This leaves me lacking in context for some recent site issues - Venge alerted me to some 504s happening in late June, which coincided roughly with some scheduled maintenance from our host, by the time I was able to look into it the site was back up and running. As I hadn't heard anything further, I was satisfied the issue was resolved. If this has been ongoing throughout July though then it seems like there is more to it, as the only maintenance this month was July 24th and should have had minimal impact to the server.
What I would like to understand from those of you who might have been here to remember, is whether the 502s and 504s this month might roughly coincide with the bandwidth spikes seen on the attached screenshot. If not, all good, but it's a starting place to investigate.


Now, in terms of looking to the future, happy to have a discussion. I don't believe the above issues are particularly indicative of an issue with the hosting (Digital Ocean droplet) or the forum software, it is probably more to do with unexpected load due to bots that can't register because of the email issue (see screenshot #2, I'm 99% sure those 298 guests are not all logged out members, haha), which is relatively fixable and I'll look to do this weekend. But I'm open to suggestions as this seems to be a recurring point of concern.

Thanks ArchieVist, looking into it - we have just moved our hosting so that might have broken the email function for new users.

Update: Migration completed.