It's somewhat difficult to believe that the project doesn't track production rates at all, whether for stats purposes, or to simply measure the overall health of the project. I would think that they would want to know that suddenly the uploads fell to a trickle, or that the system was not accumulating credit for work done.

Wouldn't it be a normal methodology to log uploads to the server and retain the upload work for a period of time, so that if something did go wrong, the work could be recreated from the logs? Or is the record of when and who submitted the work simply tossed into the dustbin when the insert to the database is done? Not a very good way to ensure systems recovery ability.