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

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19 points·emot··3 comments

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.

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.

In just two weeks (with an August 15 peak of almost 70 million requests), fogos.pt handled over 550 million requests (more than 25 million per day) 9 TB of data transfer, nearly 100 million page views, 15 million visits, and 240 million API calls.

just shy of 60k(fire fighters,government,public) users, during actual fires,in a massive heat wave

It’s an operation run entirely by volunteers, with no funding, no formal team — just passion, and the help of partners.

https://fogos.pt/

it loads fast, looks, and works great

thinkin they get a pass

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