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.
I added Anubis for https://old.lemmy.today/ and will see if it helps the situation. Bots are hammering it pretty hard but they are not getting any lemmy content at least. Thank you for your advice. :)
Glad to hear it. We use PoW to protect all endpoints which have a lot of load and cannot be cached anyway. The bots don’t just hit old, they hit all of them.
Yeah, this is just a start. :)