Saidit is currently undergoing the largest DDOS attack we've ever had

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[–]magnora7[S] 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah we disabled search temporarily because of the attacks, to help keep the site up because that's where they were attacking. Thanks for your support!

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Why would they attack the search function?

[–]magnora7[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's not cached, as it's not a static page, so it takes a lot heavier server processing load for each request. Normally we have about 90% of our requests cloudflare cached, but during the attack it was only about 50% because they were targeting search. Kind of clever on their part, tbh. That was a new twist from previous DDOS attacks. Also the quantity was 50x the number of requests, which was also new.

[–]Lilith_Fair 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hope this problem can be resolved soon. Wish we could help.