Date
7pm, Wednesday, 14 May 2025
Topic 1/2: Infiniband Demonstration
Speaker: Stephen Worthington
Comparing 40 Gbit/s Infiniband and 2.5 Gbit/s Ethernet between two PCs.
Topic 2/2: Self-hosting, self-defense
Speaker: Tom Ryder
Through March and April this year, Tom’s cgit instance was getting hammered with requests by what looked like an enormous botnet of nearly three million IPs, each making only one or two requests, crippling the server and making conventional IP address blocking impossible. He’ll run through the whole sordid story, and talk about how to mitigate attacks on self-hosters by a new generation of threats.
Venue
Cost
$2 gold coin donation
Coffee and biscuits will be provided, but please feel free to bring along your own snacks and drinks.
Agenda
- 7:00pm: Welcome (Tom Ryder)
- 7:10pm: Topic 1/2: Infiniband Demonstration (Stephen Worthington)
- 7:55pm: Tea and coffee break
- 8:05pm: General business (Nick Skarott)
- 8:10pm: Topic 2/2: Self-hosting, self-defense (Tom Ryder)
- 9:00pm: Doors close
Great meet tonight, thanks folks. My slides are here: <https://www.plug.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/self-hosting-self-defense.pdf> (application/pdf, 656 KiB).