Edit 5:
It's not over, they haven't given up entirely. I took down this sticky a few hours ago thinking that it was old news, but Voat is still being probed and attacked so I am putting this sticky back up.
Edit 4:
As many of you know already Voat is still being attacked, but in many different ways. We now believe this is related to Voat not taking down material without a court order.
Edit 3:
We are still being sent high amounts of traffic. For the time being let's just be happy we have remained online throughout this assault. Sorry about the thumbnails (text only Voat is so 1990s).
Top Traffic Last 24 Hours
DDOS Inflow
Edit 2:
This attack is relentless and dynamic. They have found holes in our system and hit us where we never expected. This has forced us to reconfigure our network and site behavior to prevent repeat attacks.
Voat has been put into "lockdown" mode so things like thumbnail generation are disabled.
Edit:
These guys are actually fairly creative. We might have a worthy opponent here. Buckle up Voat.
One of the reasons yesterday's attempt at rolling forward the port code failed was that Voat was being sent DDOS style requests in very large numbers. See yesterdays announcement about this topic.
Voat is at a stage now that the code can somewhat deal with this without capitulating. Usually these attacks only last 10-12 hours, but this current run has been longer in duration than normal so we are now informing the community that we are actually being maliciously targeted.
Below are some interesting graphs showing some stat data:
Top traffic sources in Last 24 hours
Requests over last 30 days
CPU drop when CF DDOS Protection turned on
I'll provide more info when we have it, but PG.
Until then, enjoy having your bits closely inspected. Please don't be shy about it either, just go with it. This includes the ladies as well... ;)
https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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10674727? ago
Do you think its a coincidence the shitposting guys decided to attack v/Linux again just now? v/linux/new
https://archive.fo/3VrK0
https://archive.fo/4eaPm
JoeMontana ago
Those are the srs and soupretardboxhammer guys right?
10675107? ago
In another reply they say they are doing it to catch me out for downvoating with alts or something. I'm not buying it. They seem butthurt about Voat potentilly moving off Windows for some reason.maybe its not as easy to track data if it's not on Azure.
JoeMontana ago
Interesting. Maybe they can't influence voting on linux as they can now?
10675175? ago
Not sure but the logic they are showing makes them dumb on the African level.
JoeMontana ago
I would love if going to linux fucks them over one way or the other. They have been trolling for too long on voat already. Not even in a funny or entertaining way.
10675227? ago
They are openly making accounts so they can vote manipulate on popular subs on Voat now. If @PuttItOut doesnt see this and address it then it will get worse and worse. They are doing this to drive users away from Voat.
CheckTheLogs ago
@PuttItOut doesn't have time for this. I looked through your history, you are always complaining that people are downvoting stuff you like or upvoting stuff you don't like. You folks in /v/Linux probably shouldn't have bragged about how much better Voat would be on Linux. I'm sure it will be exactly the same once PuttItOut figures out what Mick did and fixes it. You can't boast about something you like and then expect to be "shielded" when something unfortunately happens involving that something you like. You're mom isn't here.
10675428? ago
So you are butthurt about Voat going on Linux? Lol ok then.
CheckTheLogs ago
No right now it's just the database, the part that's fucking up that's running on Linux. The rest is back on the stable C# code which would have to be windows unless it's mono or something.
10675498? ago
Look in the announcement thread the admin made. It's under attack.
CheckTheLogs ago
Yeah, and you posted before that. About nothing. Shitposting on voat. Wow, so new? Have you heard of SBBH before? You're really wasting my time.
10694298? ago
@heygeorge is this SBBH doing this?
heygeorge ago
Doing what? Although chances are the answer is no.
10694407? ago
Read the comment I replied to. Someone is trying to blame you for something. I thought it was Mick that ran your sub last I looked though, unless thats you. Could have been another sub though.