Eugen Rochkomastodon.social, mastodon.online and joinmastodon.org were hit by a DDoS yesterday, thankfully joinmastodon.org was already behind Fastly so it didn't have any impact on it. We've now moved mastodon.online behind Fastly and will do the same with mastodon.social soon.
¡Emancipemos a… se cambió!@Gargron Excuse me, What is a DDoS?
Gustavo.
Drooling Fan Girl@SofiaK “A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.”
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/what-is-a-ddos-attack/
@drooling_fan_girl Thankyou. The link is very well explained I will read it.
@SofiaK yw. Initialism can often be hard to find info about. I’ll look something up only to find it has potentially 20 different possible meanings, lol.