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Lemmy.world update: Downtime today / Cloudflare (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So many hackers targeting lemmy huh.

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[–] TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you❤️❤️

[–] Grungeehamster@lemmy.world 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.

[–] 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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[–] 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.

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

I've been having lots of connection errors today

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[–] SergioFLS 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."!) 🤷‍♂️

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