Every time I try to access this community, ther’s some kind of problem with the server. If you have a look at the status page, it’s almost all orange/red.
The problem aren’t DDoS attack since the server is behind Cloudflare protection.
Admin/mods, why don’t you move this community to a different server instance?
I’m not accusing anybody, I know that maintain a server can be a challenging sometimes, I just want to enjoy this community!
Please!
@Loki
By claiming that the problem isn’t DDOS, you’re just advertising your ignorance. Cloudflair is outstanding for protecting static web content against DDOS, and Lemmy.world is well protected against that. The problem is certain dynamic pages and api calls that can only be rendered from costly realtime dynamic database operations…those are the url that the DDOS attackers are focusing on and those are the kinds of content that cannot be easily protected by cloudflair.
Your premise, though, is still accidently correct. The way to mitigate instances being targeted by DDOS is to spread the user base and community hosting across a vast number of instances so that no one instance is such a rewarding target for DDOS attack.
You’re right about my ignorance about Lemmy, I’m a user on this federated …thing and I know nothing ahout the Lemmy server. Being in a selfhosted community your answer is what I was expecting (maybe with less attack). The API are used only by the federated instance or also by the smartphone apps? For what I see, it seems to be the former, and, if it really is so, the API calls could be allowed only by those server and blocked from everyone else, Cloidflare WAF can do this. I know that the servers are a lot, but it could be possible to insert in the WAF all the IPs of the federated instances. …or not?