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Ask HN: Is HN Fronted by Cloudflare?
I just noticed after having connectivity problems through my VPN that the certificate for new.ycombinator.com is a Cloudflare certificate. For some reason I didn't think that was the case a couple months ago. Are they/have they always being fronted by Cloudflare?
- chippy 3y agoM5 hosting which they use (I think) reported ddos: https://m5hosting.status.io/pages/incident/5407b8e2b002442510000272/659e7e3058136d3c162ca3d4 https://m5hosting.status.io/pages/incident/5407b8e2b00244251... cloudfare is probably being used for this
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- pityJuke 3y agoWas about to say, just got the Cloudflare "Checking if site is secure" prompt.
- ksec 3y agoWas about to ask the same thing. And Thank You Chippy for the info on M5.
- Timber-6539 3y agoSaw the usual "host is down" message from cloudflare just before HN came back after the outage.
- TowerTall 3y agohttps://imgur.com/a/4MdBgNY https://imgur.com/a/4MdBgNY
- SushiHippie 3y agoHacker News gets fronted by Cloudflare when there was/is unusual bot activity, high load or a DDoS. This happens from time to time, but after the activity goes back to normal, they usually remove the Cloudflare fronting. As chippy said this time, they may have been DDoSed.
- curiousbat 3y ago[flagged]
- ARandomerDude 3y agoOther than the destruction of the reputation of the business, a class-action lawsuit, a prison sentence, and a lifetime of unemployment, I guess not much.
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