This instance happens ti be down quite often. Why do the admin doesn’t close the subscription and focus to keep the instance stable? It’s not like there will be blocked outside Lemmy, there ar plenty of instances out there. From outside (and IMHO) it seems a power hungry needs (sorry,bI don’t know if this does make sense in English). This is a question (that I hope will flow to a good conversation), NOT an attack.
From my understanding, the stability issues drive from repeated DDoS attacks. I’m not sure locking new membership solves that problem but does run the risk of starving new members from joining and risking a shrinkage of content.
I’m sure the admins are focused on more than one thing at a time and closing the site doesn’t seem like it makes a whole lot of sense.
but does run the risk of starving new members from joining and risking a shrinkage of content.
There are plenty of instances, that will not happens, it’s not a risk.
the stability issues drive from repeated DDoS attacks
Still? In an older post of the Lemmy.world admin I’ve read that other instances behind Cloudflare don’t suffer from this problem.
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I see that you got my “conversation” point! 🙈
Admins took the same measures.
They are professionals, you are chasing an idea that does not check out — so to speak.
If lemmy.world is behind Cloudflare protection, how can it be down for DDoS attack? Cloudflare should block them before they reach the server… If the server admin is around, could he tell us if this downs are still for the DDoS attack? (Maybe he already have stated this somewhere) And if yes, why Cloudflare protection hasn’t blocked them? I’ll write here again: this is not an attack to the server admin, these are QUESTIONS.
I didn’t get this sentence:
you are chasing an idea that does not check out — so to speak. What idea?
By the way, I’m here chasing discussion, confrontation, communication that are things that can enrich people. If all of the people that downvoted me would have wrote down their point of view in a constructive way, I think that we could have had a good chat!
They said something along the line when they explained the DDoS. However, they are addressing the issue and there is no need to suppose they are not or in the wrong way.
Your are simply not sparking a vivid, solution oriented discussion. Your self understanding in that matter is far of as you come along as complaining and a little Karen-esque.
In my opinion re-iterating that you only want to discuss this already solved case, does not help that matter and do not help people to sympathize with your cause.
The operators of this instance are legit professionals and work diligently at resolving stability issues. The occasional problems with this instance aren’t caused by resource or capacity problems, but by external forces (coordinated DDOS attacks) and inherent Lemmy issues. The reason smaller instances aren’t targeted more is because terrorism tends to focus on affecting the most number of people possible (big instances are big targets).
Stopping growth won’t make anything more stable. The problems Lemmy.world seem to be experiencing are less related to load on the servers, and is more related to bad actors attempting to harm the instance. Closing signups won’t magically make the bad actors go away
The downtime is not related to user growth. We do however plan to change our registration page, so it will refer to other instances and explain Federation in short. New users will be advised to choose other instances but will still have the option to sign-up here if they would like.
But all the troubleshooting these downtimes hasn’t left a lot of time to work on this…
Hi Ruud, I know my original post wasn’t so nice, wasn’t ment to be, I’ve written in different moment and that’s the result. Sorry. Technically speaking, isn’t the Cloudflare protection efficient against the DDoS of the last days? What is overloading the server?
No problem, it’s good to ask those questions. Sometimes we also learn from them. The outages of last days were because of database queries that took very long, which were fired many times. This is being looked into.
Got it, thanks!
