If your Mastodon server is being very slow today, it may be due to a DDoS attack on one of the biggest hosting providers.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

If your Mastodon server is being very slow today, it may be due to a DDoS attack on one of the biggest hosting providers.

They are aware of the situation and they're taking action against the attack.

This attack doesn't affect servers running on different hosting providers.

EDIT: Okay, looks like the attack is over, servers seem to be getting back to normal. If you are still having problems ask your server admin, if you are an admin ask your hosting provider.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

[kev@mcr.wtf]

@FediTips Interesting. Who is it being attacked? We're having some issues too and wonder if we're caught in it, it's a side effect, or it's a concidence?

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@kev

It was masto.host but the attack seems to have just stopped.

If you're not on masto.host then it might be some other problem?

[kini@maro.xyz]

@FediTips

We've seen a similar spike on our own instances.

I don't think it's an attack. Definitely some kind of mass scan of mastodon instances.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@kini

I'm going by what the hosting provider said: https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/115422619048254541