Today, like the past few days, we have had some downtime. Apparently some script kids are enjoying themselves by targeting our server (and others). Sorry for the inconvenience.
Most of these ‘attacks’ are targeted at the database, but some are more ddos-like and can be mitigated by using a CDN. Some other Lemmy servers are using Cloudflare, so we know that works. Therefore we have chosen Cloudflare as CDN / DDOS protection platform for now. We will look into other options, but we needed something to be implemented asap.
For the other attacks, we are using them to investigate and implement measures like rate limiting etc.
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since 0.18.2 I havn’t noticed any federation issues with my own personal instance, nothing obvious anyway.
So far federation seems to be a lot better since the fix from last week - I can’t say that I’ve seen anything out of place or out of sync myself, but I am trying to keep a vigilant eye out for anything that’s been overlooked!