Response to sites going offline

[FranklyFlawless]

@Emma

Does anyone know for certain what the cause of the downtime was?

No, but you may be interested in reading a very similar thread:

Sites down, no comms

Our Forums have been down for the last few days and we apologize for the interruption. We did communicate on this in the Matrix room but that quickly fades away in the backlog. Here is the full story: On Saturday the 29th of July, at 05:08 am GMT, we have noticed that our main puri.sm website was not responding anymore. After investigating, we realized that a huge amount of requests where being sent to the server. Our Systems team reported that 10000 requests from 3500 different IP address hav…

You did just remind me of Uptime Kuma, which is a tool I have seen used by a few privacy front-end administrators:

Uptime Kuma