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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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[–] Obstagoon 2 points 1 year 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

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[–] tabular 2 points 1 year ago

I would like to know the answer too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been having lots of connection errors today

[–] HelloHotel 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Went back up for me again only an hour ago

[–] HelloHotel 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

they have a bad habbit of getting Brain bleeds

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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

sure, but there's so many ddos attacks and other scans and probes its nearly required to put something in front of the server

[–] 6mementomori 1 points 1 year ago

meanwhile it was giving me incorrect login error and I had thought someone got into my account lol

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