Resource Limit 508 - Russian attack

[wollastoni]

Hello all,

The forum has been offline for few hours due to a ddos attack from Russia.
We have found a technical solution.
Hope they won't come back soon as I will be in Laos in the next 2 weeks and don't have time to work a more solid solution right now

Cheers
Olivier

[wollastoni]

Hello

We had another attack yesterday.
I have now activated a Cloudflare protection to the forum to avoid bots ruining the server.

There is now a security page checking you are human before accessing the forum.

Hope it will help
Olivier

[Chuck]

Thanks Olivier. Keep our fingers crossed. AI can of course click that box, but should make it a bit harder now.

I wonder if the hosting company can be asked to limit traffic (ie block masses of DoS messages).

[wollastoni]

It is already done.
I have also add some anti bots measures in our htaccess file and so on.

I hope it will be enough. There are other solutions but at a high price...

[kevinkk]

There is now a security page checking you are human before accessing the forum.

It works too! It knew I was human. Somehow. Well, if it's using my camera, beware.