videohelp dot com unreachable, unless I use a VPN

[El Heggunte]

The title says it all. IP address from Brazil.
By the way, Wikipedia had the same problem since yesterday's night until this afternoon.

[Baldrick]

I have blocked several countries because of a ddos-attack that never ends. Over 5000 connections every second can't my old server handle. 90% of all that traffic comes from bots connecting and fails the site simple javascript human check. Around 10% consists of search engines and less than 1% is "real" traffic.

But I will try remove the Brazil country block and see how it works.

[Baldrick]

I understand why many sites are using Cloudflares free ddos protection. But I hate to give up my site to one huge data mining company that will map the entire internet soon. Google also mines lots of data but at least can every visitor block such request on my site using an adblocker.

[El Heggunte]

Thanks for your attention.
You are not the only one who hates Cloudflare, so if you one day have to depend on it, I will understand and will not complain.

[pchan]

I understand why many sites are using Cloudflares free ddos protection. But I hate to give up my site to one huge data mining company that will map the entire internet soon. Google also mines lots of data but at least can every visitor block such request on my site using an adblocker.

Is it possible that Cloudflares is forcing you get onboard their service? VideoHelp has plenty of good video information.

[Baldrick]

I was thinking the same...

And I have to manually approve most new user posts because of ai bots that are registering. Internet forums will soon only be bots. Reddit has already 3498933498439843834934893489 user bots.

[ProWo]

Thank's, Baldrick, for your hard work to mantain this forum.

[Baldrick]

Yet another attack....Soon I’ll give up and do something else...

[Baldrick]

I'm banning most countries. And Brazil is worst. Over 1000 unique Brazil ips trying to connect every second.

[Alwyn]

Thank's, Baldrick, for your hard work to mantain this forum.

I'll second that, Baldrick, you're doing a great job and service to the video community.