Internet Archive is the largest Internet library in the world, in fact, it is the only platform that is responsible for preserving all types of software, documents, audios, videos, photos and any other type of content in digital format that has passed through the Internet and which is currently almost impossible to enter. In addition, it also stores a record of all websites since their birth.
Thanks to this last function, baptized as a time machine (wayback machine), we can consult the design that was shown from Google in its early days, to Facebook, through Pinterest, Microsoft, Apple or any other that has had a certain impact on the entire world. world.
Although it is a non-profit organization, it seems that certain people do not really like the pleasant work they do since, for several days, you have been suffering from a denial of service attack, better known as DDoS. These types of attacks make a large number of requests to the website to a certain website to end up taking it down by not being able to process all the requests.
We are continuing to experience service disruptions due to a recurrence of a ddos attack. We’ll post updates in this thread.
May 29, 2024 • 19:02
If, in itself, the speed offered by this website, especially the wayback machine function, is already slow, an attack of this type has brought the website down, a website that has been experiencing operating problems since last Sunday night. when the attack began.
Won’t the data be lost?
As we have mentioned above, it is designed to disrupt the functioning of any website, this being its only objective, so, as stated by the Internet Archive Twitter account, all the content stored on its servers is safe and does not run any risk of getting lost. Also, if so, you could make a backup with the backup you have.
This attack affects all web content equally, both files and the time machine function that stores more than 866 billion web pages, more than 44 million books and texts, 15 million audio recordings, 255,000 live concert recordings, 11 million videos, 5 million images and one million programs, including discontinued operating systems.
Although most of the services work today, they do so at a much slower pace than they did until now, so if you find yourself needing to use it, you will have to be patient and probably find yourself with the occasional connection error.
With almost 3 decades in operation, Internet Archive has become a conversation platform visited by millions of people every year and where all content is available completely free of charge. This organization works on a donation basis and does not display any type of advertising, operating very similar to that of Wikipedia.
Taking into account the daily usefulness and good for society of the Internet Archive, it is very unlikely that the responsible for this attack come to light, since, for sure, they will receive all kinds of criticism as it is a non-profit organization whose objective is to preserve culture, not enrich itself based on it.
