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.

      • null@zerobytes.monster
        27·
        1 year ago

        This post would not existed if they properly hide their real IP in the first place lol, so yeah it does matter a lot ;)

      • ech0@lemmy.world
        516·
        1 year ago

        Actually it does. There’s a reason why Cloudflare is a multi-billion dollar company…

        • IAm_A_Complete_Idiot
          23·
          1 year ago

          Because CDNs lighten load and work as a global cache for load times? Game servers and plenty of other types of servers have exposed their IP since the dawn of time.