It is the opposite for me but my PTZ5A4M is located higher up facing an open area while the mini is facing large trees with hedges that sometimes block the lower half of someone walking by.
Could be bots trying to mass exploit the vulnerability mentioned at 9,000 Asus routers compromised by botnet attack and persistent SSH backdoor that even firmware updates can't fix. Sometimes the exploit does not work but cause stability issues.
Looks like it is someone's personal site running on Wordpress with no updates since 2018. Probably hacked as Wordpress plugin vulnerabilities are common.
I always thought that the cost was for Synology to maintain their software. It is a one time cost per active camera and can be transferred to another Synology NAS.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I was contemplating buying one but I'll have to pass for now if it is only capturing half the plates compared to the Rekor.
Looks to me they are marketing cloud services including easier management and AI to enterprise or managed service providers; nothing of interest for home user like me.