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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€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I had a hard time signing in the other day as I got confused in the instances but otherwise I'm enjoying the experience browsing here using the summit app.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So many hackers targeting lemmy huh.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lmaooo Cloudflare is in the comments downvoting criticism

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would like to know the answer too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

now I'm convinced that that cunt spez paid those brats to sabotage us

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There mfs are paid by Spez

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

http://crimeflare.eu.org list reasons why not to use Cloudflare, though IDK if it's just ultra-privacy oriented warnings or something else...

Not sure if I should be upset, although the claim of CF potentially sniffing passwords/credit card details/other sensitive information across various websites sounds plausible to me (some websites even have a TLS cert verified by "Cloudflare, Inc."!) ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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