High reponse time issue

[LitoMore]

Are you experiencing an issue with...

shields.io

🐞 Description

It takes very long time even for a simple badge like the below:

https://img.shields.io/badge/test-random_string_sdfwjefoijoiwje-blue

🔗 Link to the badge

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💡 Possible Solution

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[chris48s]

I've spent most of my day working on this. Our uptime and response times have been all over the place today due to a denial of service attack. I've temporarily mitigated this by blocking most traffic to the endpoint badge at the CDN. This has got things under control for the rest of the service with the tradeoff that most requests to the endpoint badge are currently blocked e.g: https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshields.redsparr0w.com%2F2473%2Fmonday

I'll be thinking about ways to get that back online in the next few days.

[chris48s]

The majority of legitimate requests to the endpoint badge should now be getting served.

I'm not going to disclose the precise details of what we are/aren't blocking at the moment as we are still blocking a lot of unwanted traffic and I don't want to make it public how to circumvent that, but the majority of legitimate requests should now be unblocked.

I'm going to close these issues but we will continue to monitor the situation.