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.
This might not be a joke as CloudFlare employs lots of woke types that just might do that.
What do you mean by woke types?
Woke as in believing in identity politics, Marxism, the usual crap.
What do you believe in?
woke bots lol. I seriously don’t doubt, It’s a logical step for a business like cloudflare. Won’t ever really be proven or disproven though.