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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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[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Tagging @ernest in case instance owners don't have a larger community in which they share news like this with each other.

[–] Obstagoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could swear, and also could be wrong, but someone said Cloudflail doesn't handle ddos attacks. Which adds more to your comment if true lol

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[–] FedditAlt@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been having lots of connection errors today

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[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

sure, but there's so many ddos attacks and other scans and probes its nearly required to put something in front of the server

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

I would like to know the answer too.

[–] 6mementomori@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

meanwhile it was giving me incorrect login error and I had thought someone got into my account lol

[–] Noneo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well I signed today and I got an error saying rate limit earlier for using these types of symbols "î¦âö)ééäë((ºÜݨ¿ã¿ï" I'm assuming It has nothing to do with this but just In case I'm making a comment about it edit:also just realized It may have been from how long the password was (33 characters)

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[–] MarshReaper@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Cloudflare makes the website feel dirty, but it'll protect the site until a better option is found.

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[–] Anders429@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

A lot of people don't like that they've basically inserted themselves as a man in the middle to a lot of internet traffic.

I'm getting an error when trying to login to the old version.

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