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**Akuma** · November 9th, 2020, 09:55 PM

[Update] SORRY! Didn't mean to make anyone panic. This was not a security issue. All a DDOS does is slow down a website. Nothing else.

We'll be turning off the cloudflare captcha today. If this ever happens again, we may have to turn the captchas back on, but no need to worry. AI and I will continue to monitor the server stability :-).
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Hey all,
We've been under a DDOS attack since yesterday, so you may have been receiving a lot of timeouts when trying to access AOTK and her sister sites.

We have blocked the offending attack vector and have turned on cloudflare DDOS protection for the time being. We'll be turning it off later today or tomorrow, but until then, you may have to put up with some annoying captchas every few hours. Sorry for the inconvenience.

On the plus side, last week AI and I made some heavy changes to our server and the server loads have been really low since, so we shouldn't be having any more server timeouts or problems due to heavy loads. (Unless, of course, if we are being attacked :-) )

November 9th, 2020, 09:55 PM	#1
Akuma Administrator Akuma is offline Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Texas, USA Posts: 799	DDOS mitigation [Update] SORRY! Didn't mean to make anyone panic. This was not a security issue. All a DDOS does is slow down a website. Nothing else. We'll be turning off the cloudflare captcha today. If this ever happens again, we may have to turn the captchas back on, but no need to worry. AI and I will continue to monitor the server stability :-). ---------------- Hey all, We've been under a DDOS attack since yesterday, so you may have been receiving a lot of timeouts when trying to access AOTK and her sister sites. We have blocked the offending attack vector and have turned on cloudflare DDOS protection for the time being. We'll be turning it off later today or tomorrow, but until then, you may have to put up with some annoying captchas every few hours. Sorry for the inconvenience. On the plus side, last week AI and I made some heavy changes to our server and the server loads have been really low since, so we shouldn't be having any more server timeouts or problems due to heavy loads. (Unless, of course, if we are being attacked :-) ) Last edited by Akuma; November 10th, 2020 at 06:14 PM.