HACKER Q&A
📣 d-z-m

Is HN Fronted by Cloudflare?


I just noticed after having connectivity problems through my VPN that the certificate for new.ycombinator.com is a Cloudflare certificate. For some reason I didn't think that was the case a couple months ago. Are they/have they always being fronted by Cloudflare?

  👤 SushiHippie Accepted Answer ✓
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.

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

cloudfare is probably being used for this

👤 Timber-6539
Saw the usual "host is down" message from cloudflare just before HN came back after the outage.
👤 pityJuke
Was about to say, just got the Cloudflare "Checking if site is secure" prompt.
👤 ksec
Was about to ask the same thing.

And Thank You Chippy for the info on M5.