The thing Synology does which no competitor is yet doing is rock-solid stability.

I have a 10 year old Synology running as well as it did the day I bought it, and I’ve never needed to troubleshoot a single issue on it.

Until a competitor can match that I will still be buying Synology, with the increased drive price the cost I pay for that stability.

I think people underestimate the value of that.

There are a lot of backend processes for those sites which need a server, so that wouldn’t work, but thank you regardless.

If you’re doing static sites, then traffic shouldn’t be a concern.

I host two sites that each get more than 2 million hits a month, and I run them from a $0.10 cent Scaleway server.

Cloudflare in front of the sites takes most of the load.

Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?

Not according to that thread - it looks like they don’t yet know what caused it:

https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114178916120483761

No any details from GitHub yet. One contributor mentioned a temporary visit to disputed areas a long time ago — GitHub probably just flagged the account, and their bots messed up after that.

Maybe I’m a philistine, but I love this:

Spanish moss whispers—
Snow blankets Bourbon Street’s glow,
A rare Southern sigh.

I had to look up what Spanish Moss is, but that made the imagery even more vivid.