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.
Thank you for the amazing job, as always! Cloudflare is a solid solution :)
Sure but maybe something less centralized/proprietary would be preferable
Such as?
Nothing. DDoS mitigation is inherently an ISP or someone like cloudflare. You will not have success against anybody who knows what they are doing without their help.
That’s easier said than done, DDoS mitigation requires a large amount of servers that are only really useful to persist an active DDoS attack. It’s why everyone uses Cloudflare, because of the amount of customers they serve there’s pretty much always an active attack to fend off. Decentralization wouldn’t work great for it because you would have to trust every decentralized node not to perform man in the middle attacks. But if you know of any such solution I’d love to hear it.
Yeah I see the issue but on the other side you would get a more robust network which could also be incentivised by some sort of underlying blockchain technology. The man in the middle attack could also be mitigated on a technical level.
You are smoking crack. You clearly do not know what you are talking about.
Not sure if it’s related, but today on Mastodon, I’m unable to upload photos. Also can’t see pics from other users. Profile pics are mostly greyed out too.
Don’t forget. Donate to them. There are no ads here. So we have to maintain the staff and servers.
Lemmy World
https://www.patreon.com/mastodonworld?utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan
Lemmy Devs
https://www.patreon.com/dessalines?utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan
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?
Some people enjoy causing suffering to others. On the internet they are termed trolls. Irl people usually just call them assholes. Most people have encountered them before.
I think they are far more common and likely than anyone giving two shits about reddit.
Excellent! CDN and DDoS protection are essential. Also would recommend looking into load balancing if you haven’t.
Load balancing applications is significantly more complex than most people anticipate. In the naive implementation it typically increases database loads and reduces site performance. Static content balancing is trivial, and cloudflare will do that by default, but implementing the hard part will require careful software development to prevent a naive implementation from bringing down the database. Sticky sessions are just the beginning.
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Seems like we had downtime again just a little while earlier?
meanwhile it was giving me incorrect login error and I had thought someone got into my account lol
