Thank you for the amazing job, as always! Cloudflare is a solid solution :)

Don't forget. Donate to them. There are no ads here. So we have to maintain the staff and servers.

Lemmy World

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Lemmy Devs

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Imagine hosting a service for anyone else to use it, free of charge, no ads, free & open API, yet some idiots think it's fair to (D)DOS it.

There are more "interesting" targets, worst case - Reddit, who thinks everyone is just a number/noise.

Just leave Lemmy alone. :(

Good News

Most of these ‘attacks’ are targeted at the database

A major PostgreSQL performance issue, logic mistake, was discovered today in lemmy_server and is an easy fix. Details: https://lemmy.world/post/2008987

I don't understand why people want to take down websites. Especially sites like Lemmy, which isn't exactly sticking it to anyone because no one owns it!

Are they just Reddit groupies?

In case you haven't considered this, some helpful advice. To keep them from the lemmy.world door after the CDN installation

• Change the public IP addresses
• rotate your certificates
• block all traffic appart from the CDN and only allow a limited known good IP addresses (like yours and your support team). These steps will make your server harder to find, hopefully they move on.

Growing pains. This server and the platform will be better for it. If not for these script kids, some other attacker would eventually be motivated to try it.

old.lemmy.world still exposes your hetzner server to the internet, just a quick heads up.

Thank you as always for the transparency. This instance is going to be the most targeted because of its size. Y’all dealing with this is hard but you’re going to figure things out that will help the other instances.

It's not. People hate large companies that have a dominant position in their industry. Usually, that's fair. However, in the case of DDoS protection, you have to have a large overbearing presence to be able to have the capacity to withstand such attacks. People don't know how to see through what's typically true for what's true in this case. Do I like having a dominant player in an industry? Not particularly. Do I understand why it's necessary in this case? Yes.

Come on everyone, let's be better than this. Ruud literally said script kids, why do yall have to go and blame reddit? The Lemmy gets more attention, and chaotic dumbasses do their thing. You don't have to do any mental gymnastics to tie it back to spez.

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.

Thank you for your hard work, and for keeping us updated on the situation.

Wonder why this wasn't done earlier. Hopefully we'll see less of the 404-type pages that has plagued this instance.

Anything we can do as "users" to help, other than donating?

Excellent! CDN and DDoS protection are essential. Also would recommend looking into load balancing if you haven’t.

On the plus side watching you all tackle and solve these problems gives me confidence in the long term viability of Lemmy and the fediverse. The transparency and often detailed technical discussion definitely helps a lot too.

Man I would love to know how/why doing that is enjoyable to some people. Like how sad and pathetic is your life that that is what is fun to you?

Cloudflare isn’t bad per se, but having huge amounts of the public internet behind a centralized provider is bad for the flexibility and resiliency of the internet as a whole.

Cloudflare is a solid choice IMO. Thanks again for hosting this!

Thank you! I will donate tomorrow

Benefit of using Cloudflare CDN:

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Also, ping is now from 200-300 miliseconds to just between 50 and 60 (depending on your ISP):

64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=56.2 ms
64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=60.2 ms
64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=55.8 ms
64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=58.9 ms
64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=60.6 ms
64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=60.5 ms
64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=60.1 ms
64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=55.0 ms
64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=60.0 ms
64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=61.4 ms
64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=59.3 ms
64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=58.5 ms
64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=56.0 ms
64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=14 ttl=64 time=60.6 ms
64 bytes from 172.67.218.212: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=58.7 ms

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