Hi,

We had a DDOS attack against old.lemmy.today which overloaded the entire server for about 20 minutes. I had to turn off old.lemmy.today temporarily and will look through logs and probably block more chinese ip ranges, since thats where it came from.

Always something to do. :) Keeping this as sticky for a while to inform everyone.

Edit: I added more ip blocks for Chinese networks and hopefully it will keep future bots away. Bringing up the old.lemmy.today user interface again…

Edit 2: Had to take it down again due to massive bot scraping. Currently down.

  • MyOpinion@lemmy.todayEnglish
    13·
    4 days ago

    When I was running a web server this was a common occurrence. Most of the DDOS attacks I experienced came from China.

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
        7·
        4 days ago

        This is a genuine question, but why doesn’t this instance? Is it because we would miss out on some content? I mean you are much more in touch with the technicalities, but do we have a mandarin speaking user base you’re not trying to alienate?

        • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPM
          9·
          4 days ago

          I think we are unfortunantly heading in that direction of blocking more and more of them…

          And no, no mandarin user base. :)