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Our hosting provider reported a ~10 Gbps DDoS, and null routed our IP with a BGP update. While we are using CloudFlare now, switching to them isn't what caused
by kogir 13y ago
Our hosting provider reported a ~10 Gbps DDoS, and null routed our IP with a BGP update.
While we are using CloudFlare now, switching to them isn't what caused the outage.
- perlpimp 13y agowe're using storify and they use cloudfront. they have been experiencing some issues - but they did fix it. took a week or so.
- theboywho 13y agoThe error I was getting was an SSL certificate error, so switching to cloudflare also was contributing to HN not being accesible.
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- sidcool 13y agoDDOS Hacker News???!!! Why in the world would anyone do that? This is a fertile ground for hackers, for byte's sake!!!
- goshx 13y agoNot that kind of hackers (crackers)
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- duiker101 13y agosomeone that didn't get in yc.
- cLeEOGPw 13y agoMaybe somebody was upset that the popularity of this site grew so much it impacted the quality of discussions.
- nso 13y agoHaving been on the pointy end of the DDoS stick a couple of times I can tell you that it's not necessarily somebody that has something against YC. I once tracked down a guy that DDoS one of my sites. Turned out he was only testing his new botnet and needed a target. The DDoS took down the whole ISP of my hosting provider, and it caused my them to ask me to find another place to host my stuff. With 10 Gbps DDoS costing less than a dollar a minute it does make sense to protect one self as soon as you reach the point where somebody would find it funny to take down your site.
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