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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[-] tylerthehuman@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

ah, rate limits. something twitter was absolutely blasted for but makes sense here because we love lemmy :) even though it serves the same purpose.

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[-] Noneo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well I signed today and I got an error saying rate limit earlier for using these types of symbols "î¦âö)ééäë((ºÜÝ¨¿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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[-] Noneo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Obviously cloudflares ddosing lemmy just to get some extra money

[-] md5crypto@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

This might not be a joke as CloudFlare employs lots of woke types that just might do that.

[-] another_kbin_addict@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

What do you mean by woke types?

[-] md5crypto@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Woke as in believing in identity politics, Marxism, the usual crap.

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[-] gingersneak@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I will donate tomorrow

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[-] fence_prude@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Where can we donate toward server costs?

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

https://patreon.com/mastodonworld

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Do you prefer one or the other when it comes to donations?

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[-] ryannathans@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I assume you are rotating ip addresses after swapping to cloudflare?

[-] NathanClayton@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

CloudFlare IP ranges can be found here. The DNS entry can point to any one of those IP addresses.

[-] perchance@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I think Ryan is referring to the usual requirement that the server's IP address is changed if switching to a CDN to avoid DDoS, since otherwise the attackers can usually just bypass the CDN by sending requests to the original IP of the server.