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.

  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7·
    1 day 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
      8·
      1 day ago

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

      And no, no mandarin user base. :)