FeedCity

Their support team replied:

“Your website matthiasott.com is being accessed continuously and massively.”

That’s … great!! 🎉🥳

“It is likely a DDoS attack. We have installed a filter that only allows access from certain countries to protect the server from overload.”

That’s … not so great. 🤔😂

Because people are asking: my current provider is all-inkl.com – I’ve been a customer for about 17 years and it has always worked well in general, although their control panel never got an update in all those years… 😅

But this is now the second time I’m having issues and their support is somewhat resistant to take me seriously – the first one was that, out of nowhere, KeyCDN stopped working. I’m still convinced it was a server / firewall issue back then, too. 😁

Sorry to everyone having trouble connecting to my little website and RSS feed right now! It looks like my web hosting provider is (once again) having a hard time getting their server/load balancer configuration right. I wrote them again, hope the issue will be resolved soon. Thanks for your patience! 💚🙏

After long-winded discussions in which I had to prove to them – using nghttp via VPN – that I am not “in one boat with malicious actors using VPN and TOR” but that instead their server immediately closes the connection after the SSL handshake, they had already reset the config for my domain recently. It worked well for a few days.

But now, it seems to be offline again for whole regions/countries like Canada, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Turkey, and many more. 😕
So I’m thinking of moving my site to another provider. It might be time for my own VPS/managed server anyway…

Any suggestions (🇩🇪/🇪🇺)?

… and after one month, we now have a rotten zombie pumpkin in our garden. 🎃🧟‍♂️😂

❄️ It’s freezing cold outside here in Germany, and this is an interesting explainer of why that is: a warming event in the polar region is leading to an early collapse of the polar vortex, so Europe and North America are flooded with cold air, while the North Pole is unusually warm. #weather #climate https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/stratospheric-warming-watch-polar-vortex-collapse-cold-snow-impacts-coming-for-united-states-canada-europe-fa/

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Jimmy Kimmel is invincible now🔥😂👏

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History of email 🍿

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Ermmm…. I think something went wrong…

I‘m old enough to remember when Early Black Friday was called “November”.

Luxemburg hat bislang alles im Griff. 😁 #LUXGER

Why are mobile browsers so intent on capturing ‘hover’?! It’s just dumb, and breaks things for everyone, making you have to tap twice. Seems bad for everyone. (I know you can put it in a pointer media query, but conceptually it’s just dumb)

Petition to insist that - in the style of DVD extras - every video game comes with a making-of included. Thank you please.

When you realize a coworker is following you on Strava and sees you subtweeting work frustration in your ride titles…

I'm happy to share that I've written a chapter for a book called Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech, to be published on 26 March 2026:
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