Was SF down?

[Omniscient]

Attacks against the site. If that's how people want to waste their time that's their problem. Sorry but I don't run any DDOS protection for this site.

[Kewlz]

When are we going to shift to a VPS?

[damoncloudflare]

Attacks against the site. If that's how people want to waste their time that's their problem. Sorry but I don't run any DDOS protection for this site.

Just a quick note that you could look at I'm Under Attack as a quick alternative to looking for other DDoS protection (could help with some of the attacks you see).

[Diabolic]

I don't think Omniscient sees the point in DDOS Protection for SF. I understand that completely.

[Omniscient]

Most attacks on SF are relatively short. Not that I want hours of downtime but I rarely actually see it myself. Most of the time it appears to be brief attacks lasting 1-2 hours.

Eventually I'll tighten up the site to maximize uptime but we're still on shared hosting. Until we have dedicated I don't see a huge point as it's easy to take offline a shared hosting site.

[Kewlz]

Weren't we going to shift on a VPS earlier?

[Simba]

It's sad to see how people use free DDoSers to attack other sites, and thinking they're some leet hackers, makes me giggle everytime.

[Diabolic]

Weren't we going to shift on a VPS earlier?

I think we need to move to a VPS at some point.

[crazygamer]

It was down for me for a while. Not sure whats up.

[Diabolic]

We went down again yesterday for an hour but there is nothing currently we can do. It's nothing too big so we just have to deal with it.