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.
Thank you, I was reading about pow protection and finding out more about it. Is there some local software you could recommend? I’m not too hot on cloudflare or other big tech services unless absolutely needed.
What is your reverse proxy software?
Just nginx.
You can look into Anubis then.
Much appreciated sir. :)