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.
Thanks for keeping the instance running. I happened to get a error message smth about the instance being broken and remembering that disk upgrade post from a couple days ago I feared the DB got nuked for a sec hehe.
The db is like the holy grail for a lemmy instance. Heavily backed up and fortified. :)
I think there is only one Holy Grail and it belongs in a museum.
Protected by a rabbit with nasty big pointy teeth.