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What did you tinker with @Mark.J ? 😊
All well again now. 👍
 

Error 500 - Internal Server Error​

Oh noes.. for some reason ISPreview.co.uk's server just fell over, possibly after drinking too much last night.

Problems like this usually resolve automatically if you use your browsers BACK button and or try to reload the page again.

Failing that, please return to the main site - www.ispreview.co.uk
 
it was just down for some time
 
Not me. Bit of an odd one as it impacted the entire server, including other things, rather than just being system specific. Investigating, but the server wasn't under any particular strain at the time.
 
Just got the internal server error again there for a couple of mins. 🙄
 
was down again for me aswell
 
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and again lol
 
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Am I the only person who doesn't like the idea of the site being routed through Cloudflare? They control way too much of the internet imo and I would prefer to see the site being routed through a smaller provider.
I’d usually agree but you don’t have to use their SSL certificates and the only reason they can offer so much for free is their size
 
The ability to enable CDN protection via Cloudflare, if deemed necessary, does exist and is relatively easy (almost a flick of the switch). But I prefer to analyse the traffic first and CDNs do tend to break certain things on the site. In the meantime, I've put some systems into a static cache state (locked down).

But I hope you understand if I don't discuss security issues / mitigations in public too much ;) .
 
The ability to enable CDN protection via Cloudflare, if deemed necessary, does exist and is relatively easy (almost a flick of the switch). But I prefer to analyse the traffic first and CDNs do tend to break certain things on the site. In the meantime, I've put some systems into a static cache state (locked down).

But I hope you understand if I don't discuss security issues / mitigations in public too much ;) .
Above all, it is your site to run how you please. You offer this to us for free, so you're within your rights to host it how you please (whilst obviously abiding by all the regulatory requirements!)
 
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Just a little update. It's a very simplistic ping/http flood DDoS, seemingly harnessing masses of TOR exit notes, as well as servers from across Russia, China, Albania, Iran etc. The server does have a firewall but adapting to floods like this, where masses of IPs frequently change (blocking them doesn't stop the problem), can be tedious and may mean I end up flicking the CDN switch for a bit.

You'll probably be seeing those 500 errors on and off for a bit, though, so just try to be patient and ignore them. Not the first time we've had a DDoS to deal with, it's somewhat par for the course.
 
Just a little update. It's a very simplistic ping/http flood DDoS, seemingly harnessing masses of TOR exit notes, as well as servers from across Russia, China, Albania, Iran etc. The server does have a firewall but adapting to floods like this, where masses of IPs frequently change (blocking them doesn't stop the problem), can be tedious and may mean I end up flicking the CDN switch for a bit.

You'll probably be seeing those 500 errors on and off for a bit, though, so just try to be patient and ignore them. Not the first time we've had a DDoS to deal with, it's somewhat par for the course.
None of the outages have lasted too long to be honest Mark, just a few minutes at a time, I think we can just about manage to cope for now. 😊
 
Am I the only person who doesn't like the idea of the site being routed through Cloudflare? They control way too much of the internet imo and I would prefer to see the site being routed through a smaller provider.
I have no doubt you aren't the only person who feels that way. I'm indifferent as they're very good at what they do and can take a heck of a banging from the bots.
 
I have no doubt you aren't the only person who feels that way. I'm indifferent as they're very good at what they do and can take a heck of a banging from the bots.
Well, the CEO is suing neighbours over dogs: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/29/cloudflare_ceo_dog_lawsuit/

Which is a little scummy, but the money always gets to the head of these billion$ companies tbh. They are a lifesaver for smaller sites which they subsidize with their bigger corporate customers, i'm not sure it's doing anymore harm than good. Even when you come to decentralized social platforms they usually end up being on AWS (e.g mastodon.social) and not a dig @insertfloppydiskhere and i've become a regular user and loving it, but it's only decentralized in theory when so much of the internet is just AWS, GCP, Cloudflare and a few others
 
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