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

Wouldn't be surprised if Cloudflare itself was hiring out blackhats to DDoS attack certain websites in order to get them into the fold, like racketeering. I mean this is America, I wouldn't put it past any company here, even ones pretending to be "virtuous"

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

Other companies I'd believe, but Cloudflare has never seemed slimy

[–] LexiconDexicon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Cloudflare houses and has housed many shady and downright awful websites without any problems from their "morality department"

This is like saying Microsoft isn't slimy either because so many people use their product