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Illniyar 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

Does HN not experience DDOS? I would imagine being as popular as it is it'll experience DDOS.

q3k 7 months ago [–]

It does: https://m5hosting.status.io/pages/incident/5407b8e2b00244251...

But turns out that's fine :).

everybodyknows 7 months ago | [–]

> Issues are stable at this time. The targeted customer has implemented CloudFlare, and we have taken steps to mitigate this event.

I'm still confused. Does this mean that HN switches CF on or off in response to recent volume of bot traffic?

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