@Deftdrummer@lemmy.world to General Discussion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agoWhat has been up with lemmy.world lately?postimg.ccexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1141arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1134arrow-down1external-linkWhat has been up with lemmy.world lately?postimg.cc@Deftdrummer@lemmy.world to General Discussion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agomessage-square59fedilinkfile-text
At this point, many people have been bailing from the server due to the uptime issues. What’s the rub?
minus-squarefiat_luxlinkfedilink18•11 months agoMassive amounts of organic traffic to too small a server technically is a DDOS, even if unintentional rather than malicious. So, both to varying degrees, probably?
minus-squareMoreThanCorrectlinkfedilink10•11 months agoIsn’t that what was termed the reddit hug of death?
minus-squarefiat_luxlinkfedilink1•11 months agoIt was indeed, but maybe with a slightly different nuance of ‘going viral’ - still a DDOS.
Massive amounts of organic traffic to too small a server technically is a DDOS, even if unintentional rather than malicious. So, both to varying degrees, probably?
Isn’t that what was termed the reddit hug of death?
It was indeed, but maybe with a slightly different nuance of ‘going viral’ - still a DDOS.