Last night the Techlore forum was DDoS’d, which is probably still ongoing. As a result, we are using Cloudflare’s services to address the attack.
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Yeah, also the first time I’ve received an actual DDoS (and not a regular DoS or other mundane attack).
Although this one was not very sophisticated, the server that hosts this forum is just low-power and was overwhelmed easily, since we usually don’t have to deal with anything of the sort and the forum is relatively resource efficient. It should be all fine now
Great job responding to the attack! I’m pretty surprised Techlore was targeted. Some really salty people out there in the dark reaches of the internet I guess.
Just curious about the motivation for this attack. Were there any demands made before the attack? Or is there actually anyone that dislikes Techlore enough to do something like this “just for the lulz”?
Usually the most common way websites deal with a DDoS attack is by utilizing a third party DDoS protection provider such as Cloudflare or DDoS Guard.
What these services do is they become a proxy between the website’s server and the visitors to the website, the service then analyses the packets (source IP, destination IP, protocol etc), HTTP request metadata (user agent, host etc) and HTTP response metrics (HTTP error codes etc) to identify malicious traffic.
Normal users will be able to access the website as normal however traffic that is detected as attack traffic will be diverted from the server and absorbed by the DDoS protection service.
We were just attacked again, but should’ve been very limited downtime that hopefully not many people noticed. Thanks for the patience as we deal with this everyone
Yep, I got some Cloudflare prompts. Also, I don’t know if it’s related to that but passkey logins doesn’t seem to work for me, so I have to go with the good old passwords and 2FA.
