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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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[–] MarshReaper 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

[–] krayj 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

Can you elaborate what you mean by this? Lots of sites use cloudflair and most users of those sites would never even know. What makes it dirty?

[–] MarshReaper 1 points 1 year ago

Cloudflare definitely has a great service and the positives probably overweight the negatives in this situation. But the potential for an attack from within cloudflare itself via trackers or a probably very low chance of a letter man being in the middle can feel a little tense. It boils down to not trusting the company. I especially do not like those outages, captchas, cookies and a centralized web. Cloudflare will help Lemmy stay on top of everything and keep stability though.

Maybe being addicted to uBlock having only green and no detections makes me worried. It's like a little bit of dirt on the floor.

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