So I recently found about this called “DDoS” which is an attack-type that affects sites.
What it does is that it takes advantage of the specific capacity limits that apply to any network resources – such as the infrastructure that enables a company's website. These attacks are also illegal and can have up to a $500,000,000 fine.

I'm kinda worried, so does scratch have any DDoS protection? And if not, can Scratch have DDoS protection?

im sure scratch has measures to protect itself from ddos attacks, you should note that ddos attacks aren't very sophisticated. you just take a ton of data and then throw it at a server from different places.

I think scratch did get a DDOS attack today.

Lunarmoon- wrote:

I think scratch did get a DDOS attack today.

Not that I'm aware of. There were some issues with the filtering system but they weren't related to any kind of DOS.

Paddle2See wrote:

Lunarmoon- wrote:

I think scratch did get a DDOS attack today.

Not that I'm aware of. There were some issues with the filtering system but they weren't related to any kind of DOS.

I've seen another theory that the filter was temporarily deleted. Would that be closer to accurate? It would definitely explain what happened.

The evidence that the filter was deleted was that if you went to the filters admin panel, while it would normally just show you the login page, instead gave an error. This is not supposed to happen, and implies the filter software stopped working. There might be another filter in place other than the main one, just for backup.

AFAIK Scratch Team uses Fastly that does come with a decent amount of DDoS protections (i'm not an expert on this but iirc there are different levels of DDoS and Fastly does take care of some of them) and I'm pretty sure that the Scratch Team can purchase additional protections if they require it. Companies like Fastly and CloudFlare seem to do a really good job of preventing DDoS attacks from actually denying service.

Does the Scratch Team use their own filter or some kind of service? Where is the filters source/URL thing?