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.

Edit 3: Decided to require login for old.lemmy.today instead of using anubis.

  • Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    19 days ago

    Thanks for the heads up. I got a brief error message a while ago and figured that’s what happened. Good job keeping the instance going!

    • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPM
      4·
      19 days ago

      Thank you! These ddos attacks are annoying but not so common after all. Last time was like 3 months ago or something.