Comment on I need a new hobby, I'm going to set up my own Lemmy instance. Am I an idiot?
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 weeks ago
Yes you are mad, I know as I did that over 3 years ago. Went from at home => a cheep VPS => paid for Oracle VPS.
If you go down the lemmy route (vs piefed) then I would deply with Lemmy-Easy-Deploy by @ubergeek77. this makes setting Caddy and mail simple
AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Good to know, I’ll take a look at those. Thanks!
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 weeks ago
up untill now I’ve not had too much bot traffic, but I’m betting hammered atm. Make sure to have some good firewall rules for when it happens: Image
check this out!
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BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 weeks ago
those ~2000 blocks were in the hour after turning on the full proxy, still getting a fair few from china hitting the real IP address that they must have cached.
Grep’d the logs and had 250,000 requests from china in the last 20 hours asking for full threads via the api