During October-November 2025, the FreeToastHost club and district websites had frequent episodes of being either inaccessible or extremely slow to load.

This was caused by several different things:

• inefficiencies in the database operations
• large amounts of unwanted traffic from hackers and poorly-behaved search engine and AI bots
• There was also the Amazon AWS outage on 20 October 2025. FTH uses Amazon servers in the US-EAST-1 region, where it all started. Obviously, this one was out of our control but was still very frustrating.

The ones under our control have been addressed and currently the sites are working well.