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Hello, lately lot's of hotels have been attacked and these attacks are going through CloudFlare, because they no longer offer 'DDoS Protection'. I saw this guy on TeamViewer attacking some of the biggest retros with Layer 7 and they went down immideiatly.
Proofs;
http://i.imgur.com/v4PoU5e.png
http://vvcap.net/db/kSiCfYgz9AllxW-8HwZ6.png
I don't know if this is old news but all the people I know have this problem and don't know what to do.
What will you as retro or any site owner do?
Looks like owners will have to shell out money off their big checks for advanced cloudflare protection.
Probably won't even dent what some earn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Makarov
It's a real shame people have to attack websites to get their position higher on a topsite list (thehabbos.org in particular) and now CloudFlare is useless there is nothing you can do.
Only thing to do now is find another provider, spend more money on CloudFlare, or wait out the attacks. Anyway that says DDoS protection, most attacks are just from a single user (which are DoS) attacks.
The really big hotels make loads of money, they probably can afford the business plan, and do you really expect that a FREE service is going to protect you from a DDoS?
About time too.
I've had this happen to me before nothing new.
Yes its happened to eubbo :(
Use proxies. Cloudflare will just slowly die off if they do this.
More people need to start cheap proxy services..
Finally, something to convince people to ditch this service. It does nothing but cause more downtime than uptime. Server configuration is much more affective than CloudFlare these days.
I bet this guy is real cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Exonize
They've never offered Advanced DDoS Protection in the Free or Pro Plans. There's no need to go buy CloudFlare Business for $200.00 unless you have a legitimate steady income coming in from the hotel. You can just buy Proxy Servers for like $9.99. Boom, Cheap DDoS Protection. People are stupid and think that all they need was CloudFlare.
The Only Features that the Free Version Provides are:
- Fast Site Performance
- Broad Security Protection
- Powerful Stats about your visitors
- Peace of Mind about your site so you can get back to what you love.
Which is Basically like saying you have a Piece of Shit. We're going to give you a Piece of Shit on a silver platter with gold shavings on top of it for free, theoretically of course. For the sake of retro/hotel owners, CloudFlare goes from just barely helpful to completely useless.
'Nuff Said.
It's sad what retros have come to. I used to love seeing my IP in the client configuration, it made me feel proud :(. But @Wreckless, there's always a bypass to that, just takes the right person to find it. Although, DDoS proxies are the way to go for now.
Yes, he is really awesome and it's funny how you were the victim.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkeetEmUp
Its also funny how I can afford the business plan :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Exonize