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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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[–] gobbling871@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wonder why this wasn't done earlier. Hopefully we'll see less of the 404-type pages that has plagued this instance.

[–] musicworld@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It costs more money right?

[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. I have several servers behind Cloudflare for free. I'm just limited on analytics, some advanced firewall settings, advanced cache management and maybe a few other features that I don't use. But the basic service is free.

https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/free/

[–] LexiconDexicon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothings free, someone's paying cloudflare something to operate

[–] Vigge93@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

I imagine this is more of a "If we give people the basic stuff for free when they are small, they are more likely to buy our better stuff when they grow and need to update"

[–] null@zerobytes.monster 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dont understand this either, who the fck would expose real server IP in first place?

[–] Still@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

anyone cuz it doesn't matter

[–] ech0@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] IAm_A_Complete_Idiot@sh.itjust.works 24 points 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.

[–] null@zerobytes.monster 2 points 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 ;)

[–] GatoB@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Thats not how it works