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.
Damn these script kiddies… I don’t like Cloudflare at all but it does its job well. It may just be my paranoia, but putting a single entity in control of so many websites seems dangerous. I think we have all learned about the intentions of big corporations. But hey, it’s better than being taken down tbf.
What are your reasons for hating cloudflair? Best i can tell they run a good service and their free offerings have been great (1.1.1.1)
We said the same thing about chrome 10 years ago. It’s not the quality of the product, which is excellent. It’s the concentration of control.
Exactly my words. I’d love to see a decentralized network to do the job instead. No single point of failure and people can actually earn a bit of money instead of big corpos enriching themselves.