Deftdrummer@lemmy.world to General Discussion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhat has been up with lemmy.world lately?postimg.ccexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1140arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1133arrow-down1external-linkWhat has been up with lemmy.world lately?postimg.ccDeftdrummer@lemmy.world to General Discussion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square57fedilinkfile-text
At this point, many people have been bailing from the server due to the uptime issues. What’s the rub?
minus-squarefiat_lux@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down1·1 year 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-squareMoreThanCorrect@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoIsn’t that what was termed the reddit hug of death?
minus-squarefiat_lux@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year 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.