Hello All, I wanted to give you a quick update on all the site slowness/downtime/errors you have seen over the past few days. This was all caused by a specific user uploading about 25 images and then posting URL's to these images on chinas top porn sites. In turn each of the images got over 50,000 downloads in less then 2 hours. I discovered this and deleted all the offending images. But doing so caused a problem with extremely high server load. Since a request for a image that is no longer on the server gets sent to a file not found page the resulting request is more CPU intensive then a request for a single image. This caused our server load to go up to 1000, anyone who knows linux servers knows thats not good at all. Over the past few days we have tried to solve the issue but noting was working, this morning I tried a new method and it appears to be working at the moment. I am using a specific hot linking protection on only the offending domains and replacing the request with my own image. I want to let everyone know in case you don't already know We do not allow PORN to be hosted in any way on our service. Any account that uploads porn will be banned and all images will be deleted. And the site where you are posting links will be added to our hot linking list. Just in case anyone wants to know, the image we are using to replace offending URL's with it a picture of a fat women eating cake, so I don't think any site wants that on there site. If anyone is having problems now hot linking images please post the URL to your image in a comment.