Ask HN: Why was HN down for a few hours?

39 points by mdrzn ↗ HN

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Yes, this was the longest period in the last 6 months.
https://m5hosting.status.io/pages/incident/5407b8e2b00244251...

m5 hosting reported a "DDoS attack against a popular web site we host"

another submission notes that the https cert is newly cloudfare so looks like HN is using it to avoid the DDOS

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You got it. Sorry everyone. Still working on it.
Any chance we can just keep HN on Cloudflare going forward and turn on caching for non-logged-in users?
I hope not. Cloudflare seems to block users from Cuba and Iran.
Thailand Mobile is also largely blocked..

Was fun, could not use around half the websites I am normally using

If HN is on Cloudflare, where will people report that Cloudflare is down?
Sad site is down.

Happy my productivity is up today.