Look at all websites even ones run by multibillion dollar companies, the do not have 100% uptime. It is impossible
Okay, but they also don’t run at sub-50% uptime at peak hours, so clearly there is a middle ground of “We can’t do anything” and “We should be doing something”
I mean, by nature you can only react on stuff like DDOS attacks.
As far as I understand, when the load from a certain network is spiking you try to drop packages or block the origin all together – depending on the situation.
However, oftentimes bigger attacks swap their origin easily, which makes it hard to react.
PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I already read that. That states the problem, but not if they have a plan to address it.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Because there kinda is no one fix. Look at all websites even ones run by multibillion dollar companies, the do not have 100% uptime. It is impossible
Resolving the issues they are facing is like playing a game of whackamole. You knock one problem down, another one appears and repeat till adnausem.
The good thing about the fediverse is that you can go to any other Lemmy instance and still access the communities of Lemmy.world.
PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Okay, but they also don’t run at sub-50% uptime at peak hours, so clearly there is a middle ground of “We can’t do anything” and “We should be doing something”
slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The same as any other site. Wait for the traffic to see what is going to break and then investigate why it broke and share the fix.
a887dcd7a@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Like… ehm… not being attacked?
PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I can’t help but feel “Wait until the attacker gets bored” is a bad plan, and I’m rather hoping that they have an actual plan in place of that.
a887dcd7a@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I mean, by nature you can only react on stuff like DDOS attacks. As far as I understand, when the load from a certain network is spiking you try to drop packages or block the origin all together – depending on the situation. However, oftentimes bigger attacks swap their origin easily, which makes it hard to react.
Its simply not that easy to pursue a bigger plan.