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.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    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.