Discord was not alone in facing issues this morning, with services like online marketplace Vinted, dating app Grindr, food delivery service JustEat, and NordVPN ...
If you are still having issues with your Discord server, try refreshing your page or logging in and out of the app. We are continuing to monitor and anticipate most users being able to connect and use Discord like normal within the next 15 minutes.โ This meant that all users should have been back online by 8.30am. Hereโs what we know about the problems faced by thousands of Discord users.
DDoS refers to a 'Distributed Denial-of-service attack' This is a common tactic to bring servers down as it floods the server in question with useless and ...
From what we understand at present, Discord going down, alongside all the other sites and services being affected is a result of Cloudways being hit by a large-scale DDoS attack. For example, Amazon was hit by one of the largest DDoS attacks in history in 2020, where the Amazon servers were hit by up to 2.3 terabytes of false data per second. DDoS attacks are nothing new, in addition to being able to bring helpful VoIP services like Discord down, they can wreak havoc in far more inconvenient and potentially harmful ways too.