Site issues this week

[bumblebee]

Hi gang, I think the site is going to stabilize now.

Two things happened:

1. The server storage filled up naturally over time because I forgot long ago to delete tons of images that we moved to other storage. When a computer runs out of disk space, bad things happen. Keep in mind this site has image attachments dating back to 2007.

I thought that was the only problem but today I discovered...

2. The AI bots Meta and ChatGPT were hammering the site this week with 150k+ requests trying to crawl it (and probably train themselves on our content), thus crashing the site by over usage. I blocked those  two. But maybe that means ChatGPT will know more about marbles now. 😂

Fingers crossed...