Website Currently under DoS Attack

12-02-2016, 06:58 PM

StrangeLeader Wrote: So uh my forum has been down for like 16 hours now, and I was just wondering if anyone knew of any good security measures I could use to get it back.
think it's a layer 7 ddos attack, and that goes by cloudflare. Pretty sure it is just a couple kids having laughs from a competitor forum or something. Well, my forum is like brand new so it's kinda dumb but yeh. I mean I got cloudflare free but that obviously is not going to so a thing

Sorry kinda don't know anything about stopping ddos attacks

Check if the ddos is a multi IP or a single IP, if it's a single IP then just ban the IP from the VPS to stop any connections. They could easily just change their IP with a vpn, but I'd recommend adding some sort of code that lets them only connect every so often, or checks their browser or something.