• @BlazeOP
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    3011 months ago

    Seems like the CloudFlare protection still isn’t enough. I feel sorry for them to have to deal with this on a Sunday

  • Demigodrick
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    1911 months ago

    My understanding (from running an instance) is that this isn’t something cloudflare is going to help with, it’s the database on these instances locking up. It happens to my and multiple other instances too, and i have monitoring from multiple sources so I get notified and can restart the server/docker containers. Improvements should come in the next lemmy versions.

    • @BlazeOP
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      411 months ago

      Even better, so they might consider getting rid of CF at some point

      • Demigodrick
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        511 months ago

        I mean they’ll probably benefit from some sort of CDN, and CF being free really helps keep costs down. Are there alternatives you’d suggest?

        It kind of amazes me that they’ve not been using one up until recently given their size. I’m anti-lemmy.world but I do sympathise with their technical issues.

  • CMD
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    1311 months ago

    @Blaze @fediverse This is the natural reminder to lemmy people that they should have a few alts on different instances, just in case something like this happens.

    • sprl
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      2411 months ago

      Also just populate smaller instances instead of centralizing.

    • pjhenry1216
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      1311 months ago

      It would probably make more sense to suggest that more people permanently move off of lemmy.world. it’s growing too quickly. People don’t need accounts on lemmy.world to browse lemmy.world. I’m not on it and i browse it just fine. It’s heavy usage that brings it down. So setting up slts doesn’t fix the problem. It’s changing the curling wallpaper when the problem is the house is on fire. Don’t treat the symptom. It’s the fediverse. Spread out.

      • CMD
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        211 months ago

        @pjhenry1216 @Blaze You’re not wrong that people should move to smaller instances (large instances become prone to censorship), but smaller instances do go down sometimes as well. You want to know where you’re moving to if your instance goes down, and not having a game plan for that is bad.

      • @BlazeOP
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        111 months ago

        I always think that with every DoS, some users just create accounts on other servers, see that it’s quite faster than LW, and just keep using it. But yeah, I guess at some point LW will just close registrations.

  • @BlazeOP
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    611 months ago

    Of course, as soon as I post, LW is back. That’s good!

  • Ocelot
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    611 months ago

    Remember a lot of even the largest lemmy instances are hosted on a single vps. No redundancy, no scaling, and the admins barely know what they’re doing. Its volunteer work done as cheaply as possible.

      • vintprox
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        111 months ago

        Yeah, well, it will be unsolved again and again, because that’s the nature of servers - they experience downtime. I’m just looking ahead of myself and how badly this tag will age for some, haha.

        • @BlazeOP
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          211 months ago

          Oh, I see. Let’s say that for the day I posted the issue, it’s now solved

    • @BlazeOP
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      211 months ago

      Seems strange