02-22-2015, 2:30 PM
Hey folks, just wanted to give you a heads up that the reason the forum had slowed to a snails pace and you're now seeing the CloudFlare notification is that it appears we were starting to get hit with another DDoS Attack.
As such the CloudFlare defenses have been cranked up and I stopped and restarted the servers web server service (Apache - for those of you knowledgeable in Linux), to drop the existing unclosed communication requests, which immediately started dropping the load on the server back down to normal.
The CloudFlare defenses will remain heightened for awhile to insure that all unwanted and malicious traffic is blocked. I know it's a bit of an irritation, but I believe it's better than the alternative.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but if it weren't for these loser asswipes we wouldn't have to deal with it.
As such the CloudFlare defenses have been cranked up and I stopped and restarted the servers web server service (Apache - for those of you knowledgeable in Linux), to drop the existing unclosed communication requests, which immediately started dropping the load on the server back down to normal.
The CloudFlare defenses will remain heightened for awhile to insure that all unwanted and malicious traffic is blocked. I know it's a bit of an irritation, but I believe it's better than the alternative.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but if it weren't for these loser asswipes we wouldn't have to deal with it.