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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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[–] Nerrad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

My biggest problem with CloudFlare is that very often they don't play nicely with VPN.

[–] AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not ideal, but there's not a whole lot of options out there for DDoS mitigation.

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[–] TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you❤️❤️

[–] MarshReaper@lemmy.world 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.

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[–] kratoz29@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What solution were you using before Cloudflare?

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[–] ryannathans@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I assume you are rotating ip addresses after swapping to cloudflare?

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[–] brentzitkins@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Script Kiddies are definetely some of the saddest people on the internet. If you're gonna be an unethical hacker at all, actually do it. Don't be a sissy.

[–] gressen@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's about skills. Script kiddie can download and run a script written by someone else but that's pretty much it.

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[–] Sharan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's been feeling sluggish all day long as well. I've been trying to post from my phone and PC, and it seems it's really slow from time to time.

[–] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So many hackers targeting lemmy huh.

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[–] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

[–] Grungeehamster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I had a hard time signing in the other day as I got confused in the instances but otherwise I'm enjoying the experience browsing here using the summit app.

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