A volunteer-run wildfire site in Portugal stayed online during DDoS attacks

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Comments (2)

greatgib · 42m ago
Honestly, I don't see how one might be proud to need cloudflare just to block simple requests in that range of only 33,000 requests per second at peak.

Not little but even a simple potable rule on a basic server should be able to sustain that easy.

miguelmurca · 6m ago
This is an at-a-loss, public service created by volunteers who are not necessarily professional software developers. The first version of the website parsed PDFs. It's not obvious at all what exactly they are doing behind the scenes.

I don't see how this is the correct reaction to have, nor whether most of us can claim to have made such a positive social impact with a website.

I would think a much more interesting question is who is targeting a public service informing about wildfires when these get particularly bad.