SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Right, so there's currently a DDoS of our site specifically happening. Part of me is mildly annoyed, part of me is proud that we're worth DDoS-ing now. Since it's only slowing us down a bit and not actually shutting us down, I'm half tempted to just let them run their botnet time out. I suppose we should tweak the firewall a bit though. Sigh, I hate working on weekends.
Update: Okay, that appears to have mitigated it; the site's functional at a reasonable rate of responsiveness.
Update2: Attack's over for now. You may go about your business.
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
(Score: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Sunday October 30 2016, @10:39PM
Oh, and to answer, we're hosted on Linode. Amazon might be better to better wither a DDoS (we've gone into degraded performance because someone blasted Linode's data centers off the net before), but we'd loosing IPv6 capability. We could also deploy a CDN or a LOT of other things before we'd run out of options to weather a storm.
Still always moving