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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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[–] BarterClub@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Don't forget. Donate to them. There are no ads here. So we have to maintain the staff and servers.

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[–] Hyphlosion@donphan.social 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure if it’s related, but today on Mastodon, I’m unable to upload photos. Also can’t see pics from other users. Profile pics are mostly greyed out too.

[–] cerberus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excellent! CDN and DDoS protection are essential. Also would recommend looking into load balancing if you haven’t.

[–] fkn@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Load balancing applications is significantly more complex than most people anticipate. In the naive implementation it typically increases database loads and reduces site performance. Static content balancing is trivial, and cloudflare will do that by default, but implementing the hard part will require careful software development to prevent a naive implementation from bringing down the database. Sticky sessions are just the beginning.

[–] Noneo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obviously cloudflares ddosing lemmy just to get some extra money

[–] md5crypto@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This might not be a joke as CloudFlare employs lots of woke types that just might do that.

[–] another_kbin_addict@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by woke types?

[–] md5crypto@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Woke as in believing in identity politics, Marxism, the usual crap.