Brewster Kahle

Moment of Gratitude: CloudFlare

CloudFlare saved the Internet Archive servers from DDOS attack yesterday

The max rate of this DDOS attack was 525 Gbps (44.93 Mpps) of a "TCP flood."

The Internet Archive does not have enough bandwidth to fend off that kind of attack.

Thank you #cloudflare or we would have had a very bad Saturday at the @internetarchive

DDOS attacks are coming more frequently.

Jun 15, 2025 at 11:09pmWeb
Show threadPaco HopeJun 15, 2025
@brewsterkahle anyone who hates the @internetarchive is vile and should be ostracised.
Show threadLightJun 16, 2025
@paco
I wouldn't say I *hate* the internet archive but I do question it's choice to censor some sites from the Wayback Machine (and no, I don't mean Kiwifarms)
@brewsterkahle @internetarchive
Show threadPaco HopeJun 16, 2025
@light Nobody's perfect. If you were running it you would make choices that piss some people off. If I were running it, I'd make choices that piss some people off. You don't hate it, even as you find some legitimate faults. So yeah, you're not a vile person. Just a person with informed opinions.
Show threadLightJun 16, 2025
@paco
Of course not. Why, did you actually mean that people who hate it are vile and should be ostracized? That wasn't hyperbole?
Show threadhaui ☭🇵🇸Jun 15, 2025

@brewsterkahle
Capitalism cant have free information. You're standing in the way of history revision and elimination of free education. You will go down. Capitalism will eat you alive.

This system needs to be brought down. Capitalism needs to go.

Fediverse is libertarian socialist in nature, internet archive is libertarian socialist in nature, foss is libertarian socialist in nature.

Libertarian socialism is the answer.

Show threadEvaJun 16, 2025
@brewsterkahle @internetarchive while they do provide a decent null route, it's unfortunate that CF also shrouds so many vile actors - enabling their existence by shielding many DDoS command and control systems, infected actor systems, distribution systems, and so forth. CF makes money in both directions.
Show threadAll Your Money Now KidJun 16, 2025

@brewsterkahle @internetarchive

Any information on its point or points of origin?

Show threadGabe KangasJun 16, 2025
@brewsterkahle @internetarchive I hate that we've centralized the entire internet behind Cloudflare. And I hate that we HAVE to centralize the entire internet behind Cloudflare.
Show threadBrewster KahleJun 16, 2025

@gabek @internetarchive

We turn cloudflare on and off, but lately they have been super helpful.

Yes, a shame we need something like that level of shield to be on the open Internet.

Show threadAllan ChowJun 16, 2025
@brewsterkahle @gabek @internetarchive it's pretty wild how best in class cloudflare is and is still less known to a lot of people compared to alamai
Show threadNemo_bis 🌈Jun 16, 2025
@grumpasaurus Well, Akamai got its market share with the help of acquisitions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies#Acquisitions
Akamai Technologies - Wikipedia

Show threadRussell_Senpai 🎮Jun 16, 2025
@brewsterkahle @internetarchive I don't get why people do it for the fleeting moment of fame and the everlasting hatred they're guaranteed to get from this. A billion or whatever bounty you can think of isn't worth this.
Show threadRichard "RichiH" HartmannJun 16, 2025
@brewsterkahle @internetarchive once again that's really funny timing
Show threadB_BirdJun 16, 2025

@brewsterkahle @internetarchive

Access historical versions of U.S. government websites from before January 20, 2025 with a simple URL change…

#GovWayback #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #wayback_machine

https://govwayback.com

GovWayback

Access historical versions of U.S. government websites from before January 20, 2025 via the Wayback Machine

Show threadTrisJun 16, 2025
@brewsterkahle @internetarchive @cloudflare :)
Show threadToni AittoniemiJun 16, 2025

@brewsterkahle @internetarchive Why would anyone have a reason to attack the archive?

Unless they were after denying people access to truth, recordings of events that actually happened?

We are living in fascist times!

Show threadacauemaJun 16, 2025
@brewsterkahle to make it truly resiliant, use torrents and debris? eventually decentralizing everything! not overnight, ofc. perhaps start partnering with unbloated minimalistic gnu os'es to use disk space previously stored by stupid os. we don't need full archive of everything, just a few recent history will be plenty enough. #2cents
Show threadB_BirdJun 16, 2025

@brewsterkahle @internetarchive

Remember to Archive all your #NoKings Day websites for the Future !

#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #wayback_machine #GovWayback

https://web.archive.org/save

Show threadbufalo1973Jun 16, 2025
@B_Bird @brewsterkahle @internetarchive I'd say that even better if it's outside any US server. Just in case.
Show threadgunstickJun 16, 2025
@brewsterkahle @internetarchive could the internet archive be federated?
Something based off torrent or similar technology.
Or a federated/distributed backup in case the main site goes down.
Show threadBrewster KahleJun 16, 2025

@gunstick @internetarchive

The Internet Archive is trying multiple dweb systems: torrents of public items long in place, over a petabyte in filecoin, running dweb meetups and camps.

Helping other Internet Archives start in other countries...

yes, working on it.

Show threadTailkinkerJun 16, 2025
@brewsterkahle Now only if they could do it without requiring Javascript...
Show threadPen2Profit MaryanJun 16, 2025

@brewsterkahle @internetarchive

Seems like I read about some serious outages on Thursday last.