β² 135 βΌ What has been up with lemmy.world lately? (postimg.cc) submitted 3 years ago by Deftdrummer@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world 58 comments fedilink hide all child comments At this point, many people have been bailing from the server due to the uptime issues. What's the rub?
[β] Bianca_0089@lemmy.today 32 points 3 years ago (3 children) One claim is DDOS attacks, another claim is that the servers are too small for the massive amount of people that recently adopted lemmy I'd love to know which is true just because .. . . it's fun to know details permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [β] fiat_lux@kbin.social 18 points 3 years ago (1 child) Massive amounts of organic traffic to too small a server technically is a DDOS, even if unintentional rather than malicious. So, both to varying degrees, probably? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] MoreThanCorrect@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Isn't that what was termed the reddit hug of death? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] fiat_lux@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago It was indeed, but maybe with a slightly different nuance of 'going viral' - still a DDOS. permalink fedilink source parent [β] RavenFellBlade@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago It's DDOS. The admins for World have explicitly said so, and even said exactly how the attacks have been perpetrated by exploiting calls that require a lot of processing time to overload the server. permalink fedilink source parent [β] marcos@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago The numbers are quite open at the maintenance community. Unless most users just decide to visit it together every day, there's a DDoS going on. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] fiat_lux@kbin.social 18 points 3 years ago (1 child) Massive amounts of organic traffic to too small a server technically is a DDOS, even if unintentional rather than malicious. So, both to varying degrees, probably? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] MoreThanCorrect@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Isn't that what was termed the reddit hug of death? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] fiat_lux@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago It was indeed, but maybe with a slightly different nuance of 'going viral' - still a DDOS. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] MoreThanCorrect@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) Isn't that what was termed the reddit hug of death? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] fiat_lux@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago It was indeed, but maybe with a slightly different nuance of 'going viral' - still a DDOS. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] fiat_lux@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago It was indeed, but maybe with a slightly different nuance of 'going viral' - still a DDOS. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] RavenFellBlade@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago It's DDOS. The admins for World have explicitly said so, and even said exactly how the attacks have been perpetrated by exploiting calls that require a lot of processing time to overload the server. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] marcos@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago The numbers are quite open at the maintenance community. Unless most users just decide to visit it together every day, there's a DDoS going on. permalink fedilink source parent