Something wrong with the WebService?

[Freso]

Yep, MusicBrainz is currently way overloaded; see

State of things, Q2 2016

I would like to applaud @bitmap, @Gentlecat, @chirlu and @zas for keeping the site up and running! The fact that we’re up and running despite the challenges we’ve had in the past few weeks, it is sheer amazing to me! Given all of the challenges we’ve faced in the past two years, I’m really happy that we haven’t had any serious failures. But, there is still plenty of time for those to his us before we’re out of the woods! There are many things happening that can be a bit hard to see, but if you…

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Rate limiter has changed?

The rate limiter has not changed, but over overall traffic has and this causes more 503 errors to be thrown. At peak times like last night we’re hitting our 30mbit/s committed traffic limit. We could buy more bandwidth, but then we would likely need to buy more servers to handle the capacity. We’re currently trying to get away from operating our own servers and instead rent servers from some other provider. In order to do that we need to finish establishing our EU presence (a few weeks more, sa…