Re: Debian Games Parties!
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> wrote:
>> Signum was also slightly concerned about being DDoSed.
>
> As an attack, or as a side effect of being popular?
The second one.
> I think the only part that may become useless is the site itself, not
> the rest of alioth. So I don't think we really need to worry about
> attacks (I'm assuming nobody is going to attack us, and if they do, we
> can't really protect anyway).
The concern was about the screenshots site, which isn't hosted on alioth.
<Signum> Just wondering if I can prevent DDoS abuse if all screenshots
are requested.
> If it's the popularity thing, then our site becoming unreachable is
> exactly the problem. I don't think there's a high risk of that. How
> many people are we expecting? How often do they refresh their page? If
> they just claim a package and then spend at least 5 minutes generating a
> good screenshot, I think we need a huge number of participants to create
> problems at alioth.
Zero idea, depends on how widely we advertise it I guess.
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