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

submitted 2 years 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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[–] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

There mfs are paid by Spez

[–] Obstagoon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I could swear, and also could be wrong, but someone said Cloudflail doesn't handle ddos attacks. Which adds more to your comment if true lol

[–] guy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

What, isn't DDoS protection one of the main selling points of Cloudflare, if not the primary selling point even‽ Google search seems to agree

[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Tagging @ernest in case instance owners don't have a larger community in which they share news like this with each other.

[–] FedditAlt@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been having lots of connection errors today

[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Went back up for me again only an hour ago

[–] Userisoptional@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

I'm getting an error when trying to login to the old version.

[–] MarshReaper@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Cloudflare makes the website feel dirty, but it'll protect the site until a better option is found.

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[–] Anders429@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Why does this comment show up as pinned?

[–] Anders429@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

A lot of people don't like that they've basically inserted themselves as a man in the middle to a lot of internet traffic.

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