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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[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago

They're just trolls. Lemmy is popular enough that it's fun target for them, but still small and infantile enough that you don't have to be hackerman to ddos it. Reddit, twitter, etc... would be constantly getting ddos'd just for the lulz by people if they didn't have the infrastructure to make it a challenge.