As expected.

[Moonchild]

As expected, people unhappy with us existing and being mentioned in news articles can't help themselves and attempt to DDoS us in response. Undoubtedly in this case trying to "make a point" that CloudFlare is "necessary" against that kind of behaviour. It isn't.

The forum may be intermittently giving errors until they stop attacking us. It is what it is.

[Lucio Chiappetti]

How silly of them to mimic the battle of Shalmirane

[Moonchild]

Off-topic:

How silly of them to mimic the battle of Shalmirane

Maybe they don't know that it was a myth

[billmcct]

Forums died for me this morning and returned a broken moon.
First time I've ever seen this:

Not public - Pale Moon.png

[Moonchild]

First time I've ever seen this

That was on purpose. I took the back-end processing off-line for a bit to tune in the rate limiting.

[billmcct]

Ahh, so I see said the blind man.

[suzyne]

Yesterday (my time) when visiting the forums I saw that it was offline and naively thought that it was getting such an increase in visits because of The Register article so it couldn't keep up, but in a good way. I was like, "Oh, isn't that nice, Pale Moon getting some increased attention!"

[Moonchild]

Yesterday (my time) when visiting the forums I saw that it was offline and naively thought that it was getting such an increase in visits because of The Register article so it couldn't keep up, but in a good way. I was like, "Oh, isn't that nice, Pale Moon getting some increased attention!"

Well traffic is up, but the forum is set up to handle quite a bit of traffic despite being on a small server instance. If there are issues it's usually because of either scrapers or because someone wants to attack us for whatever reason of the day. So far we haven't been "slashdotted" yet by legitimate traffic. Not using Apache has a lot to do with that, probably
Either way, it'll just recover without intervention when the attack stops. It seems to be a bit "bursty" anyway.