Ask HN: Is HN Fronted by Cloudflare?

Hacker News gets fronted by Cloudflare when there was/is unusual bot activity, high load or a DDoS. This happens from time to time, but after the activity goes back to normal, they usually remove the Cloudflare fronting.

As chippy said this time, they may have been DDoSed.

M5 hosting which they use (I think) reported ddos: https://m5hosting.status.io/pages/incident/5407b8e2b00244251...

cloudfare is probably being used for this

Saw the usual "host is down" message from cloudflare just before HN came back after the outage.

https://imgur.com/a/4MdBgNY

Was about to say, just got the Cloudflare "Checking if site is secure" prompt.

Was about to ask the same thing.

And Thank You Chippy for the info on M5.