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.
That’s for for always keeping everyone up date. Sucks that you have these people wanting to DDOS a free community of people, I don’t get it.
Either way thank you. Now to just somehow find a decentralized version of CloudFlare so we don’t have to deal with there trackers that they have.
Commercial interest wants to see free communities like this die out. I won’t name names.