diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 392dac0..0dd9cd9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,4 +13,8 @@
 /config/security.yaml
 /config/security-private.php
 /config/versions.yaml
+# Per-host env override tree — holds LIVE secrets (JWT, CSRF salt, git-sync
+# token) + per-host overrides. Never commit/sync: git-sync stages anything
+# not gitignored, so an untracked /env/ would boomerang to Gitea.
+/env/
 /themes/intotheeast/node_modules/
diff --git a/config/plugins/api.yaml b/config/plugins/api.yaml
index e3b1e18..8a89c21 100644
--- a/config/plugins/api.yaml
+++ b/config/plugins/api.yaml
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ invitations:
 popularity:
   enabled: true
   exclude_admin: true
-  exclude_ips: {  }
+  exclude_ips:
+    - 83.135.64.30
   history:
     daily: 30
     monthly: 12
diff --git a/env/intotheeast.com/config/plugins/api-private.php b/env/intotheeast.com/config/plugins/api-private.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e07a37..0000000
--- a/env/intotheeast.com/config/plugins/api-private.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-// Auto-generated private secret. Do NOT commit to version control.
-// Used to sign and verify API JWTs. Regenerate by deleting this file; the
-// next request will write a new value (invalidating all existing tokens).
-
-return 'b24a28b949941d16ef856a957f051831184a82ec15229dcd630183518bd0bca2';
diff --git a/env/intotheeast.com/config/plugins/git-sync.yaml b/env/intotheeast.com/config/plugins/git-sync.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index bb62dbd..0000000
--- a/env/intotheeast.com/config/plugins/git-sync.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-enabled: true
-folders:
-  - pages
-  - config
-  - themes
-local_repository: ''
-repository: 'https://git.gorinskat.nl/m038/intotheeast-com-content.git'
-no_user: false
-user: into-the-east-grav-sync
-webhook: /_git-sync
-webhook_enabled: 1
-webhook_secret: '/RX{_*lU]dF&y_Pd!h+EZWjMP1{Np>$z>\%+G''Jo'
-branch: main
-logging: false
-password: gitsync-def502005b5427cc6afd28ea66682788711e72b3e31bcb6bd302db4232e48a8783900ed76bf2cf891b3e4545dd925a5f5276fa683bf033797b5c6074f7ef0c520c455e34e27392be46615378e779cba61fe4a7f710fcbf157fb9709142794bce7d785e3738de84dd6887e0287f2923e96ae12ce446e4e61285a3ce48
-sync:
-  direction: both
-  on_save: true
-  on_delete: true
-  on_media: true
-  cron_enable: false
-  cron_at: '0 12,23 * * *'
-remote:
-  name: origin
-  branch: main
-git:
-  author: gituser
-  message: '(Grav GitSync) Automatic Commit'
-  name: GitSync
-  email: mischa@gorinskat.nl
-  bin: git
-  ignore: ''
-  private_key: ''
diff --git a/env/intotheeast.com/config/security-private.php b/env/intotheeast.com/config/security-private.php
deleted file mode 100644
index d185898..0000000
--- a/env/intotheeast.com/config/security-private.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-// Auto-generated private secret. Do NOT commit to version control.
-// Used for CSRF nonce signing and admin rate-limit hashing. Regenerate by
-// deleting this file; the next request will write a new value.
-
-return '7b82d740b30aafea06c98ee539ff5c2f1800cbd60f07754d131db7d80e687068';
diff --git a/env/intotheeast.com/config/system.yaml b/env/intotheeast.com/config/system.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index a859bf9..0000000
--- a/env/intotheeast.com/config/system.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-# Production-only Grav config overrides.
-#
-# Deep-merged OVER the committed user/config/system.yaml via Grav's
-# per-environment config mechanism: on the server this file is deployed to
-#   <webroot>/user/env/<hostname>/config/system.yaml
-# and Grav's `environment://config` stream (keyed on the request hostname)
-# layers it on top of `user://config`.
-#
-# These values are deliberately NOT in the committed system.yaml because they
-# would break local development (see CLAUDE.md §1 — dev keeps twig.cache:false
-# so theme edits take effect immediately). Prod is the only place they apply.
-#
-# Deploy with:  make remote-apply-env-prod
-# The user/env/ tree is outside the content repo's tracked folders, so it is
-# NOT restored by content-push / git-sync / remote-fetch-content — re-run the
-# target above after any fresh install.
-twig:
-  cache: true
-  debug: false
-  auto_reload: false
-
-# Compression / connection handling.
-#
-# This host is not FastCGI (no fastcgi_finish_request()), so Grav's shutdown
-# "early connection close" falls back to emitting `Content-Encoding: identity`
-# to ask the webserver not to compress. But Apache's mod_deflate compresses
-# anyway and adds `Content-Encoding: gzip`, giving TWO conflicting headers —
-# the browser can't decode the body and renders raw gzip bytes (a garbage
-# page). Note: allow_webserver_gzip:true takes the SAME identity branch, so it
-# does not help. The real fix is to disable the early-close path, so Grav never
-# emits the bogus header and mod_deflate compresses cleanly (single header).
-debugger:
-  shutdown:
-    close_connection: false
-# Let the webserver own gzip; Grav does not compress or double-label.
-cache:
-  gzip: false
-  allow_webserver_gzip: false