Jeff Geerling

I used the 'report abuse' feature on DigitalOcean to report `164.90.211.4`, we'll see what comes of that.

> So "report abuse" for in these cases, will probably not solve anything. DDoS as a service is growing exponentially every year. True, but that one IP was orders of...

A few more quick stats since things are calming down (at least now that Cloudflare's handling the brunt of it: And looking at my logs from the time _before_ Cloudflare...

@minecraftchest1 - Eventually if I find a good comment system that integrates with spam prevention services that I can integrate with a static site and don't feel like it will...

Well someone is at it again. Approximately 5 minutes ago I got an outage alert, and saw the exact same patterns. Hundreds of thousands of requests like: ``` 150.129.148.88 -...

Cloudflare IPs are popping into the list, since I switched it on again. Wish there were a simple plugin or something for Nginx to just pop on Cloudflare mode and...

For now, since I'm not on the site and I'm okay with basically disabling comments overnight, I've re-enabled my Cloudflare firewall rule to block all POST requests. The attack is...

Seems like the exact same attack that plays out over on Nixcraft: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/nginx-block-post-requests-urls-for-spammer-ip-address-cidr/ Here's a fancy bandwidth graph on my server: 

@minecraftchest1 - I meant Disqus :D — basically, anything that I don't self-host will eventually have an incentive to jam ads and tracking into their product (even if they're a...

Added a note that `curl https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog.xml` returns the correct feed, but some users (notably, for NetNewsWire) are seeing duplicates of every article I post now. Not sure what's going on,...