Summary bot traffic spiked from the typical 4 x traffic to 9 x traffic causing the website to use too many resources and making hosting.com suspend the site to protect the other website who share this VPS server!
Big thanks to hosting.com for resolving this quickly.
FYI At the same time Cloudflare and an unnamed hosting company was dealing with
Follow on from [Resolved] Is MantisBT and the wiki being inaccessible for everyone? - #30 by gramps-project
apparently now the website is behind cloudflare as mitigation. unfortunately, this breaks fetching the RSS feed(s), e.g. https://gramps-project.org/blog/feed/ , because that URL does not return a valid XML document, but a HTML page containing cloudflares’ javascript captcha.
@azrdev Exclusion added a few hours ago for https://gramps-project.org/blog/feed/ it should now work.
I hit my phone’s data limit and the throughput is throttled until next week.
The Cloudflare verification screen does not complete loading before the refresh timer expires and the page reloads.
Its “stuck here? Send feedback” linked page is ALSO on a cloudflare validation timer. So if you’re stuck on validation that uses impassable validation for the feedback form, how is that useful?
The refresh time is too short anyway. I notice it constantly reloading on an idle browser. That seems like it would cause excessive server load.
Well there’s the problem. I’m not there, you are 
What speed have you been throttled down to by your provider?
They don’t specify the throttling speed.
I suspect it is artificial anyway. The connection still identifies as 5g but the slowdown seems variable. For instance, the top-level Facebook pages seem to still serve up at normal speed (their graphics load fast) but the drill down on threads are painful. Other sites are slow across the board.
