How do you deal with DDoS Attacks?

[Deleted member 25872]

Have you recently had a DDoS Attack on your forum? How do you deal with it? Do you any DDoS protection to stop/prevent the attack?

I believe my forum does have DDoS protection but my host manages it. Most of the time when I have visited my forum my community has been up. I would say my host would have to deal with the Attacks.

 

[Page]

My community had been attacked and that's partly because I had part if the files open and wasn't meant to be open which was didn't know until one day it happen and my graphic guy told me about that your part of the root was public.

The front end of the website was alright but the admin panel was blank as a white paper. Taken hours and hours to find a line of bad code.once removed then I had to install fresh files and recover my backup MySQL

 

[Adieu]

Does your hosts use Cloudflare?

 

[Golddisk]

My community had been attacked and that's partly because I had part if the files open and wasn't meant to be open which was didn't know until one day it happen and my graphic guy told me about that your part of the root was public.

The front end of the website was alright but the admin panel was blank as a white paper. Taken hours and hours to find a line of bad code.once removed then I had to install fresh files and recover my backup MySQL

Thats not a DDoS attack, what happened to you is more of a hack/ insertion of a malicious code. A DDoS attack is when your site is flooded with so much fake traffic that it can't handle legitimate traffic.

 

[Page]

My community had been attacked and that's partly because I had part if the files open and wasn't meant to be open which was didn't know until one day it happen and my graphic guy told me about that your part of the root was public.

The front end of the website was alright but the admin panel was blank as a white paper. Taken hours and hours to find a line of bad code.once removed then I had to install fresh files and recover my backup MySQL

Thats not a DDoS attack, what happened to you is more of a hack/ insertion of a malicious code. A DDoS attack is when your site is flooded with so much fake traffic that it can't handle legitimate traffic.

I know. I didn't say DDos.

 

[John]

If your forum has consistent DDoS issues, I'd recommend that you look into paid DDoS protection plans. @Sam wrote a good post about it here that I'd recommend reading if you're having any issues.