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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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[–] 0Xero0@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

now I'm convinced that that cunt spez paid those brats to sabotage us

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[–] Noneo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well I signed today and I got an error saying rate limit earlier for using these types of symbols "î¦âö)ééäë((ºÜÝ¨¿ã¿ï" I'm assuming It has nothing to do with this but just In case I'm making a comment about it edit:also just realized It may have been from how long the password was (33 characters)

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This might be related. Encrypting passwords is resource intensive, and longer passwords need more resources.

Specifying really long passwords, repeatedly, is one way to DDoS a server. Maybe they're blocking unnecessarily long passwords.

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

Any news? I'm still seeing empty pages sometimes (db errors I think), s6 wonder if the kiddies are somehow getting through despite cloudflare.

[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 2 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

I've been having lots of connection errors today

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

Why don't you close the subscription to Lemmy.world so new people will subscribe to smaller server so that if one has problem, not the majority of the people are affected by it? Isn't this supposed to be one of the main characteristic of the fediverse?

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a bit of a pain having your account on a different instance to the one you most use, you can't browse local communities the way you can if you were on the "home" instance, you can't delete posts.

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[–] 6mementomori@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

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