The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

This is why I’ve gotten into the habit of maintaining my own WWW archive of sites I find interesting. Probably have around 1 TiB now, and One Of These Days I’d like to set my network up so it can serve arbitrary sites directly from local archive to revive any site I want.<p>I have a `wget-mirror` shell function invoking wget with all the trimmings that takes care of 99% of sites. I’ll edit the full command into this comment when I get home if anybody else wants to start doing the same :)

Why, what&#x27;s the point in doing such nonsense? Unless it&#x27;s someone with lots of money, contacts in the dark web, and some historic Barbara Streisand type chip on the shoulder.

How much $$ does archive.org spend on infra and such? How much does one need to endure the most damaging DDOS? I remember seeing from somewhere that Google went through some huge DDOS attack without going down.<p>Given its benefit to the lay persons I recommend everyone who use their services give a small amount once for a while. I already did so but if not for family issues I&#x27;d donate way more.

What are the ways to manage a DDoS attack, preferably using open source? Don&#x27;t say Cloudflare because they&#x27;re an extortionist firm.

This is like an arsonist lighting an orphanage or library on fire. Why would you do something like that?

People who want to get rid of data history should be considered the enemy of humanity. I hope the archive is fine after all this.

&gt; Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable. We are working on it &amp; will post updates in comments.

Seems to be back online. For now, anyway!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.archive.org&#x2F;@brewsterkahle&#x2F;112514176498845289" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.archive.org&#x2F;@brewsterkahle&#x2F;1125141764988452...</a><p><pre><code> @internetarchive is back up! this is a back-and-forth with attackers. Sees weekends and holidays are popular. we made adjustments, but we will see. at least Happy Memorial Day!</code></pre>

If anyone from the archive.org team read this: love the website, by the way. You&#x27;ve saved so much rare content its really awesome.

[dupe]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40492076">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40492076</a>

Who&#x27;s their biggest enemy at the moment

It&#x27;s an attack on human progress. Attack on our ability to build and grow over the past.

Is there any way to know who is responsible?

It&#x27;s those damn record labels throwing a cog in the wheel, isn&#x27;t it

Looks like someone at Amazon is trying juke those remainded servers again. When is the IRS gonna catch up with this? They are worse OpenAI at abusing their non-profit status.

Cui bono?

Clicking this link isn&#x27;t helping them with their current situation. You&#x27;d just be contributing to the ddos.

It&#x27;s where I get all my PD movies, among Jamendo&#x27;s dump for music albums.<p>This is really bad for CC media.

1716850657<p>Internet Archive is now working for me

Seems to have stopped or been stopped.

so is purl.org

archive-it.org is still working

Url changed from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;3ktiatctiqm2r" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;3ktiatctiqm2r</a>, which points to this.

“AWS has been losing money, quick dump more old stuff to IA. So we can write it off!” - Amazon now.

they are trying to make their case for BGP regulation.

Dupe <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40492076">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40492076</a>