Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.

    • seang96@spgrn.com
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      1 year ago

      DDOS = denial of service attack. Attacker sends a bunch of requests overloading a service and causing other clients to experience.timeouts due to the service not being.abe.to.handle the load.

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        1 year ago

        It’s like a group of people standing in line for the cashier and they each buy a single peanut with cash and have a question to the manager.

        I like that picture, it makes it easier to understand for people who aren’t that much into computers.