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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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for your efforts, work and results. Those "attackers" only deserve disgust.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I'm learning a lot by following lemmy.worlds actions. Appreciate the transparency!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Where can we donate toward server costs?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hope lemmy.world can avoid using Cloudflare which goes against the spirit of Fediverse as it's just an objectively evil company.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Can you give some insight to this?

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[–] [email protected] 16 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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

ty for all ur hard work β™₯️

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Damn these script kiddies.. I don't like Cloudflare at all but it does its job well. It may just be my paranoia, but putting a single entity in control of so many websites seems dangerous. I think we have all learned about the intentions of big corporations. But hey, it's better than being taken down tbf.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I put this site behind cloudflare in response to this post. Other than having to change SSL/TLS encryption mode to Full, it seemed easy. I turned on bot fight mode and I'm using the managed WAF ruleset that comes with the free tier. Any configuration recommendations anywhere in the panel?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe is that Reddit dude, jealous of Lemmy's increasing popularity.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems like you made this comment in jest, but I wouldn't say it's outside the realm of possibility. We can't fly off the handle and lob accusations absent any sort of proof, but it would hardly be the first example of a corporation targeting an up-and-coming disruptive service run by amateurs.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hmmm, we're getting a fuckload of web requests on our Lemmy too... I think I'll enable CloudFlare too! :)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder now with the semi-adversarial/semi-cooperative nature between lemmy instances, if wer'e not going to see more DDOS and other types of raids happening because a different instance has an ax to grind against yours. Say between you defederated them, or they consider your instance too big etc.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the internet, glad there’s a working solution

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