[Leica] Why you can’t get into the gallery

[Leo Wesson]

Hi Brian, 

Any thoughts about moving the lug gallery to a commercial venue, maybe something like Smugmug?  

How secure do you think Smugmug is?

Thanks,

Leo Wesson
817-733-9157
Leo at leowesson.com

> On May 12, 2026, at 6:54 PM, Marty Deveney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Sheesh.  Thank you, good luck!
> 
> 
>> On Wed, 13 May 2026 at 7:56 am, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> The LUG gallery server is under such heavy attack that I can't even get
>> into it to try mitigating somehow.
>> The "attacks" are AI robots extracting images to load into their
>> software.
>> 
>> Here is a load listing of the servers in the data center rack holding
>> the gallery server. The numbers are 1, 5, and 15-minute loads. Any
>> number bigger than 2 will start to show slowness.
>> 
>> backup4    up  514+16:44,  0 users,  load  0.90,  0.55,  0.45
>> gallery    up    1+17:21,  0 users,  load 67.30, 66.36, 68.02
>> justus     up  224+23:00,  0 users,  load  0.12,  0.20,  0.21
>> justus2    up   10+17:49,  0 users,  load  0.00,  0.00,  0.00
>> justus3    up 2118+05:19,  0 users,  load  0.19,  0.20,  0.21
>> lfinfo3    up       2:34,  2 users,  load  0.37,  0.25,  0.23
>> mejac      up  514+16:57,  0 users,  load  0.15,  0.24,  0.24
>> s21        up  280+09:21,  0 users,  load  1.80,  1.86,  1.69
>> s22        up   24+13:18,  0 users,  load  0.87,  0.58,  0.46
>> s24        up  514+16:27,  0 users,  load  0.33,  0.29,  0.25
>> server1    up  755+00:37,  1 user,   load  0.29,  0.15,  0.09
>> vrx        up  478+17:28,  0 users,  load  0.11,  0.15,  0.15
>> www        up  223+22:46,  0 users,  load  0.27,  0.47,  0.49
>> 
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