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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Sueshia101 ago
So what on earth would be the reason to "hack" an internet site like this? I realy don't understand the waste of time. Do they do it "because they can"? What a waste...I use my "because I can" to swipe my card and help someone at the food store...what a waste using it here.
Gamio ago
They don't want to hack Voat to have control over Voat they want to harm Voat so that spaces which are not under their control die. If CPU usage is crazy high then the sites responsiveness goes to shit driving users away, if a database is corrupted or damaged then part of the site is lost until it can be restored which takes time and effort, if bandwidth costs skyrocket then it becomes unsustainable.
If youre not on Reddit or Facebook or some other platform they have power over then you are out of their control, they are the authoritarian left who believe anything right of Stalin is a nazi and fair game to attack and undermine in the name of "Social Justice".
Sueshia101 ago
Not a fan of fb at all, don't have a page, never been to reddit have no clue what thats about. Don't even know what led me here for that matter...
All this computer harm to create issues seems like going into someones bussiness everyday and yelling fire. Soon no one will come back...ok. what a waste of brain power...its like being a genius and a junky...stupid.
Thanks for filling me in...it was kind of you to take the time.
Gamio ago
No platform suits them just fine. No space to say or see what they don't control is exactly what they want.