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Lemmy.world update: Downtime today / Cloudflare (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Today, like the past few days, we have had some downtime. Apparently some script kids are enjoying themselves by targeting our server (and others). Sorry for the inconvenience.

Most of these 'attacks' are targeted at the database, but some are more ddos-like and can be mitigated by using a CDN. Some other Lemmy servers are using Cloudflare, so we know that works. Therefore we have chosen Cloudflare as CDN / DDOS protection platform for now. We will look into other options, but we needed something to be implemented asap.

For the other attacks, we are using them to investigate and implement measures like rate limiting etc.

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[-] spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

Come on everyone, let's be better than this. Ruud literally said script kids, why do yall have to go and blame reddit? The Lemmy gets more attention, and chaotic dumbasses do their thing. You don't have to do any mental gymnastics to tie it back to spez.

[-] Miqo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

[-] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

People in here really thinking big businesses are attacking lemmy lmao its ridiculous.

[-] Skyrkazm@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Tbf. It's not exactly the first time large companies/corporations decided to burn other companies down if legally allowed with little to no consequence when possible to reduce competition.