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If kiwifarms ddosed everyone that they didn't like... plus, if anything KF has been surprisingly resilient to massive DDoS without any 3rd party protection serv
by mardifoufs 3y ago
If kiwifarms ddosed everyone that they didn't like... plus, if anything KF has been surprisingly resilient to massive DDoS without any 3rd party protection service since they lost CloudFlare and other providers. So for this one specific thing, I think lessons can be learnt from kf on how to mitigate DDoS without 3rd party providers.
- 127361 3y agoThey developed their own proof-of-work system to rate limit requests, using SHA256, implementation details here: https://archive.is/dfBVN https://archive.is/dfBVN They also have servers in multiple countries. Some of these servers being blackholed by Cogent, by the way.