In November 2024, my blog was down for over 24 hours. Here’s what I learned from this absolute clusterfuck of an incident. Lead-up to the incident I was browsing through photos on my Nextcloud instance. Everything was fine, until Nextcloud started generating preview images for older photos. This process is quite resource intensive, but generally manageable. However, this time the images were high quality photos in the 10-20 MB size range. Nextcloud crunched through those, but ended up spawn...
