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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Hey everyone, so as I'm sure everyone is aware Lemmy.World has been experiencing several outages throughout the last few days.

We have been investigating the root cause of these outages but believe that they are related to our current hosting provider (Hetzner) blocking access from ClouldFlare as (we think) they believe that our CDN is a DDoS'er, and is causing these disconnects to our backend server, problematic for sure.

We've opened support tickets with our current provider and are awaiting a response. We have no issue with being as transparent as possible with downtime. Anyone that is curious, can feel free to check out https://status.lemmy.world and https://dash.lemmy.world for up to the minute outage information. We are also looking into other fediverse friendly methods of posting status and outage updates

In the meantime, we are evaluating alternative hosting options and solutions to provide a high level of reliability to you, our users. Really, we want to say thanks to everyone for soldiering through all our technical growing pains.

Cheers

LW Infra Team

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[-] danielton@lemmy.world 64 points 11 months ago

It didn't help that almost every other general purpose instance blocked sign-ups in June and early July either, or required an essay on the application. Lemmy.world was the only one that was even trying at all, and I will commend them for that.

Hopefully things will get better by the next time spez screws up. Because there will be a next time.

[-] gabe@literature.cafe 11 points 11 months ago

Next time the lemmy join page needs to be improved so people can spread and don't try to centralize into a single instance and break the purpose of lemmy in the first place.

[-] danielton@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Sure, but to be fair, there weren't really many general-purpose instances that were accepting sign-ups from anybody when the Reddit bullshit went down in June. That's part of why lemmy.world got as big as it did.

Most people who ended up on Squabblr and Discuit instead went there because they didn't have to write an essay to join or try to find a server that was accepting sign-ups and wasn't down a lot.