[Omniscient]

Cloudflare appears to have finally moved me up the support ladder to level 2 tech, which they should have done immediately anyways. One of the guys I speak with regularly has said it's dealt with.

On a side note one of my options is to consider Google Shield.
http://www.google.com/ideas/projects/project-shield/

I sent them a contact already discussing how HF would be the perfect beta site for their service. HF experiences many attacks in a wide spectrum of styles. That along with my person system administration capabilities would mean that HF could greatly increase the DDOS protection they are aiming for.

This year I'm expecting some hardware changes to how HF is served. Even though we run with Cloudflare I don't fully rely on it for all my protection. There is still room for improvement and I believe it's past due that we upgrade hardware and in that moment I can also implement a new serving structure that should improve uptime even more.

I know we'll never have 100% uptime. I've always said I'm happy with 98% actually. But I need the proper tools to combat attacks. Sadly Cloudflare actually takes these tools away from me because I rely on their systems to be working to thwart some attacks.

I'm never deterred by attacks either. I find them a challenge and the uptime a victory. DDOS attacks also provides me strong sysadmin experience. It's like a puzzle. No one likes to be confused but figuring out all the pieces is rewarding enough that you want to do it.

[๖ۣۜCreative]

Glad HF is back online and hopefully CF starts working properly but sometimes downtime is nice, gives me a reason to go outside and do shit.

[Phillip Star]

I was wondering if HF was like this all the time.

[webdev77]

Glad to know what's going on and why I keep seeing the index2.php with the 5 second redirect timer.

[StacksAMillionaire]

Yeah been pretty annoying with all the CF errors but meh, at least you're getting it under control.

[Regan]

Thanks for the information Omni, and best of luck.

[xx 0x0 xx]

thanks for informing us Omni keep your good your bro

[๖ۣۜCyber]

Thanks for letting us know Omni
was really pissing me off :/

[NoScript]

If you want to ensure that HF has great up-time the best thing you could do is get rid of Cloudflare.

There are many great alternatives, the best is Incapsula.

[Geno]

In any case. I won't be intimidated by attacks and HF will always come back online. I'll continue to do my best to ensure uptime.

Thank you.

You're the man! It almost amazes me that people have no lives today to try and consistently DDOS HF after all this time. They must either be severely butt hurt about something or they think that they're "pro haxors".

Regardless, thanks for informing us because I was part of the group of members earlier today that was trying use the site.

[Frеsh]

Thanks for making a thread Omni. I was wondering about the downtimes

[hey0 m9 rekt]

Thanks for the update Omni! I was starting to wonder what in the blazes was going on. Sounds like CloudFlare is starting to become a bit incompetent.

[She Will Squirt]

I love your dedication to Hack Forums Omni, keep it up.

[Doxicity]

Make sure your wife knows how to bring the site back up.
in case you have explosive diarrhea, or die or some shit.
i'd be more saddened by HF's death than your own, no offense omni
no homo

[Gt403cyl]

It's ironic that the admin on a "hacker" forum needs to tell/push providers on how to get systems up and running during attacks.

Glad your on the good side Omni!