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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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[โ€“] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you! I will donate tomorrow

[โ€“] ruud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be aware that you use another server so you might consider donating to them instead.

[โ€“] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have an account on yours too, but I might split it between both indeed :)

[โ€“] Zetaphor@zemmy.cc 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm curious, why bother with multiple accounts? It seems counterintuitive when taking federation into account

Edit: All of these reasons are why I host my own instance

[โ€“] krayj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I do it for the following reasons:

  1. The big main lemmy servers can and do go down regularly. having accounts on other instances still gives me the ability to log in and participate on the communities I care about. I sure do wish the underlying federation logic allowed for associating selected logins on various instances together somehow.
  2. Testing: often, I will create a post or comment into a community hosted on a different lemmy server and not see it update. When this happens, I'll log in on the other instance to see what that post or comment looks like from there.
  3. Insurance against defederation: I participated/followed some beehaw.org communities before they defederated, and then I was forced to open an account there to continue participating in those communities.