3 hours of downtime yesterday

Some of you may of either seen my tweets or stopped by the site and seen it was down for a few hours.
The host we use had a DDoS attack on their network.
Everything seems to be running smoothly now, our host my be switching to a cloud based host.
I'll keep you guys updated as soon as I find anything out.

 

How you guys thought about throwing Cloud Flare (http://cloudflare.com) in front of your domains? They say it thwarts a lot of the DDoS stuff.

 

We had a thread about that here > http://admin-talk.com/threads/6454/
@Ashley.S. Said its really not worth it.

 

Replied on that thread. Ashley.S has much more experience than I so I'll defer to him. I'm happy running it in front of both XF and vB though.

 

I was going to say right now at 1:33pm West Coast time, it says you are offline. The other thing is who decides when a site goes offline etc?

 

huh?

Going down last night wasn't by choice and it's the first time I've noticed an issue since I moved to this host a few years ago.

We're definitely "online" now

 

Hey there, I am talking about through PostLoop. It says even now, that you are Offline? So even though I am posting I don't earn anything for doing so. So that is why I was wondering why this happens?

 

Hello @SassyBrat
I'm pretty sure I answered your question about postloop here.

This thread has nothing to do with postloop.

 

FYI Guys: CloudFlare will only minorly protect your site(s) from (D)DOS attacks, it won't stop hosting servers from being DDOSed only the relevent server hardware/software can do that.

CloudFlare is only a reverse proxy that filters your traffic for you, so you don't have to. It has it's pros and cons like most things, but CloudFlare sadly would have been 100% useless in stopping the attack, you would just see a different message that's all