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Lemmy.world update: Downtime today / Cloudflare (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago by ruud to c/lemmyworld

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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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[–] ruud 44 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Be aware that you use another server so you might consider donating to them instead.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I have an account on yours too, but I might split it between both indeed :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I'm curious, why bother with multiple accounts? It seems counterintuitive when taking federation into account

Edit: All of these reasons are why I host my own instance

[–] jiji 3 points 1 year ago

Well, I can’t answer for them but this situation in particular makes it nice to have accounts on different instances. If I can’t log on to/load my lemmy.world account then I can switch to my lemm.ee account and load content there.

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