Is something wrong with EU customers on cloudflare?

DataFrogs

I believe its just me but a while ago cloudflare EU location customers had downtime, they didn't know why. Now @CloudflareSYS says its fixed and back to normal, however for me its not. Cloudflare is not routing anything though their networks, going right through to my server and because of that my server received a DDoS attack once the IP was exposed. I usually get hit with botnets however because my site competes with another site, its basically a battle to be the best.

The message I get is "CloudFlare has been temporarily disabled due to a system issue. To ensure there is no performance degradation to your website, we are temporarily routing all traffic directly to your server. Once peak performance is back, we will automatically re-enable CloudFlare."

"This domain ("") has been temporarily disabled due to a system issue. To ensure there is no performance degradation to your website, we are temporarily routing all traffic directly to your server. Once peak performance is back, we will automatically re-enable CloudFlare."

Any advice / alternatives?

erhwegesrgsr

I would say buy a paid load balancer or create your own load balance cluster using LEB's

DataFrogs

I plan to just set up my own systems with my own firewall.

DataFrogs

Jack, http://puu.sh/1rz7C
http://puu.sh/1rz87
http://puu.sh/1rzbg
http://puu.sh/1rzbx

All routing to china, bulgaria, russia, netherlands, germany, few other locations like Israel.

DataFrogs

@Jack said: FYI you must of had a few hundred thousand connections for them to route it directly.

Yep, about 324,000+

DataFrogs

Quite a bit there @Jack but even still, they've basically stopped my service. So what alternatives do I have?

DataFrogs

$20/mo I don't have .
Already paying $30/mo for a cpanel server @Jack

I checked out buyvm however, it looks like everything is out of stock.

joepie91

@DataFrogs said: I believe its just me but a while ago cloudflare EU location customers had downtime, they didn't know why. Now @CloudflareSYS says its fixed and back to normal, however for me its not.

That was an issue unrelated to what you're experiencing.

@DataFrogs said: Cloudflare is not routing anything though their networks, going right through to my server and because of that my server received a DDoS attack once the IP was exposed. I usually get hit with botnets however because my site competes with another site, its basically a battle to be the best.

The message I get is "CloudFlare has been temporarily disabled due to a system issue. To ensure there is no performance degradation to your website, we are temporarily routing all traffic directly to your server. Once peak performance is back, we will automatically re-enable CloudFlare."

That generally means you're getting DDoSed hard enough to give Cloudflare issues in keeping their network running.

I usually get hit with botnets however because my site competes with another site, its basically a battle to be the best.

Are you by chance running some kind of gaming, 'hacking', or gambling site?

DataFrogs

@joepie91 said: Are you by chance running some kind of gaming, 'hacking', or gambling site?

Community forum - close to 100 members now, over 1.5k posts.

DataFrogs

@Jack saved my sites life

DataFrogs

@Jack yeah he might want to kill me after he sees the big botnet attacks people dish out. Not usually powerful though, just like 92.85 Mb/s