Each IP may now make 120 requests per minute instead of 60. Under
load the limit drops to 60 RPM once the site reaches 600 RPS and to
30 RPM at 1000 RPS, instead of 30 and 15 RPM at 200 and 300 RPS.
One page load makes three or four requests, and many visitors share
an IP behind carrier-grade NAT or an office gateway, so the old
limits throttled real users. The old global thresholds were also far
below what the host can serve. Update the FAQ in every locale to
match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Switch from High Frequency 2vCPU/2GB ($18/mo) to Regular Performance
1vCPU/1GB ($5/mo). Tighten HAProxy rate limits from 100/50/30 RPM to
60/30/15 RPM with lower global RPS thresholds (200/300 instead of
300/500). Reduce maxconn, socket buffers, file descriptor limits, and
Docker resource settings to fit within 1GB RAM constraints. Update all
user-facing content and translations across 14 locales.
- Remove disruptive alert() on error pages, rely on role="alert" banner
- Add skip navigation link for keyboard users (WCAG 2.4.1)
- Fix heading hierarchy on error page (sr-only status text in h1)
- Add "opens in a new tab" screen reader hint on external links
- Wrap language selector in form with noscript submit button (WCAG 3.2.2)
- Add aria-label to copy-to-clipboard buttons and footer landmarks
- Use h2 for alt-IP section to maintain single h1 per page
- Add persistent underline on links for non-color identification (WCAG 1.4.1)
- Fix footer attribution contrast ratio to ~5.5:1 (WCAG 1.4.3)
- Add aria-busy/role=status loading announcements for skeleton state
- Add translations for new accessibility strings across all 14 locales
- Update integration tests to assert role="alert" instead of alert()
- Add i18n module with Locale enum, PO parser, and Accept-Language negotiation
- Create gettext .po translation files for en, es, de, ja, ko, id, fr, ru, pt, it, zh-Hant, zh-Hans, nl, ar
- Route HTML pages under /{lang}/ prefix using IETF language tags
- Auto-detect browser language and redirect from / to /{lang}/
- Add language selector dropdown in footer
- Localize geo names (country, city) from MMDB where available
- Add hreflang alternate links and multilingual sitemap for SEO
- Support RTL layout for Arabic
- Update integration tests for new routing structure
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