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[ZhymabekRoman]

Please use this issue to report any kind of problems and issues

[sergeevabc]

https://freedium.cfd/https://betterprogramming.pub/the-secret-ingredient-for-becoming-a-better-developer-at-any-level-be-curious-1797c9fbcc1c

This page isn’t working right now
freedium.cfd can't currently handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 502

[ZhymabekRoman]

Someone DDOSing us! Fixed...

[sergeevabc]

@ZhymabekRoman, thank you for the prompt response and the very existence of this thread where users can report problems. I confirm that your service is back to normal.

[mathix420]

Crazy, I wonder who wants to ddos such great service... I hope it's not a company..

[tr1ten]

This doesn't seem to work either, only half of the content is visible :(

[ZhymabekRoman]

@tr1ten Fixed

[ZhymabekRoman]

LMAO: https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/@s7ryker/this-site-is-bypassing-medium-coms-paywall-24173dc9b3a4

[MrVtR]

Website is working?
Here I get error HTTP ERROR 502 when I try to open it

[ZhymabekRoman]

@MrVtR Fixed, thanks!

[nursyahr]

Not really an issue but just a note to anyone else, if you're accessing via uni wifi and run into an error it might be the uni wifi.

[yluom]

Unable to join freedium.cfd, is it still available ?

[ZhymabekRoman]

Yes, of course

[Szymok]

hi, ERROR 502 again

[ZhymabekRoman]

yeah, interesting...

in investigation proccess...

[Nagarajan1990]

[chester89]

It's not working for me either. About a week or longer

[ZhymabekRoman]

Yeah, I knew that. Guys, I need a good Python engineer to help me figure out what's wrong with the current shutdowns.

Idk what's the problem, trace logs says sometimes problem with Redis, that it took like 2 minute to perform basic operations like GET. That's probably because of server Contabo. I tried to get Hetzner Amphere cloud instances, but Hetzner's IP is blacklisted, so requests to Medium GraphQL API falls under the status code 403, possible Cloudflare protection.

Another problem might be using SQLite as cache database, with custom ZSTD based compression library, and whole thing might be making very hight CPU usage, so it's leads to timeout request, or hang out whole application.

[ZhymabekRoman]

Solutions are for now:

• Disabling SQLite based cache - Done, no result
• Moving to Hetzner - Done, can't test properly, balcklisted IP
• Refactor connection section in Freedium - Done, doesn't affects
• ???

[chester89]

Are you talking to Redis that is far away from the app? Maybe the network is slow or service provider is having issues. I dont know much about Python, so can't help on that part

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[ZhymabekRoman]

Nah, they are containered in one docker-compose

[KartikSoneji]

Moving to Hetzner - Done, can't test properly, balcklisted IP

My Python is a bit rusty too, but about cloudflare blocking requests: have you tried messing with the http protocol version and cipher suite list? In the past at least that was quite effective in tricking cloudflare's detection engine.
Not sure if the blacklisted IP makes cloudflare immediately shut the request down but worth a shot I think.

[ZhymabekRoman]

@KartikSoneji Do u have more details about that?

[KartikSoneji]

@ZhymabekRoman so I actually ran into this while trying to download videos (specifically, Pokémon) from anime sites 😅
(original source)

I found that this bypasses cloudflare captchas:

curl -L --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0" --cipher AES256-SHA256 --tls-max 1.2 "<url>"

[ZhymabekRoman]

Working now
@KartikSoneji @chester89 @Nagarajan1990 @Szymok @yluom

[PescheHelfer]

not really, at least not in the last 7 hours:
https://romans-status-page.vercel.app/status/freedium

[ZhymabekRoman]

@PescheHelfer, fixed, thanks!

[ZhymabekRoman]

Someone send me this:

I have created a shortcut to read medium articles from iOS mobile, here is the shortcut link
https://routinehub.co/shortcut/19111/

[chester89]

I've opened several pages, seems to be working now. What was the issue?

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[ZhymabekRoman]

@chester89, Very bad cheap server (thanks Contabo), Python, and (I suppose) 20GB SQLite database. That's three big problems. Things are better now that we've migrated to Hetzner's dedicated server, but it has become very expensive to host. For now it's not a problem as it's a corporate server, but in the future I plan to rewrite some critical parts to Cython, in short, C-based types in Python, I suppose that should speed up things up to 400x. Migrating to Postgres also helps to speed up database queries and reduce disk usage.

[allenyllee]

Hi @ZhymabekRoman, do you consider receiving crypto coins as donation, such as BTC, ETH, ADA...etc.?

[ZhymabekRoman]

@allenyllee Yes, of course. But at the moment I don't know what crypto wallets are acceptable to use.

Can you recommend a crypto wallet?

[allenyllee]

@ZhymabekRoman I am Cardano fans, If you don't have any preferred blockchain system yet, I highly recommend you give Cardano a try. Cardano's liquidity staking system is very fluent and safe. Your fund never leaves your wallet, just stake to a staking pool, and you will receive the rewards. Furthermore, you can operate your own staking pool, and asking peoples to stake on your pool, then your pool will receive a portion of rewards. Maybe this reward can support your Freedium site.

To avoid you think I am a scam, I do not provide any link, I highly suggest you to study by yourself.