We’re still working on a way to display a notification for just the affected accounts.
What are the symptoms?
The IP address is regularly going online and offline. Around 90% of tests show successful results, but websites are repeatedly coming online and offline.
Websites show error: Connection Refused
Cloudflare error: 520 Web server is returning an unknown error
What caused this issue?
The issue is caused by a persistent DDoS attack on the website IP address. This might be an attack on a particular website or an attack targeted at the full hosting cluster. We don’t have additional details to share about it.
When will this issue be resolved?
The issue will be resolved when the attack is over. When exactly that happens, we don’t know.
Timeline
8 Feb: Regular status checks on the IP address showed resolved failures.
12 Feb 14:00: The status checks have stopped recording regular outages. This should mean most websites are largely available again.
It’s also good to know that due to the nature of a DDoS attack, there is very little anyone can do about it. Due to the Distributed nature of a DDoS attack, it’s impossible to block or stop such an attack. And while it’s possible to mitigate DDoS, doing so is complicated, expensive and error prone.
DDoS attacks are a fundamental design flaw in how the internet works. You can’t flip a switch and make it work.
Not really. If we moved all websites to a different IP address, then the attacker would likely just start attacking the new IP address. And due to the nature of (most) DDoS attacks, it’s impossible to tell which specific website, if any, is the target.
Absolutely! If you create a new hosting account now, it should end up on a different IP address, so you can move your website to it. While your website is unreachable, you can still access FTP and phpMyAdmin, so you should be able to migrate your website even when it’s unreachable.
I would not recommend clicking on the advertisements placed on InfinityFree, since Google will notice it as an attempted, forced way to generate revenue/good for the said website/AdSense account.
Click advertisements if they catch your interest and offer a service/website that you genuinely want to read about.
Do not click on advertisements whenever you see them.
Hey can someone tell me if their Site is able to function if you’re on this IP, my Site seems to be down after someone posting Javascript which took mine down, I’m getting 522 with CloudFlare, I deleted the post from MySQL however it’s still going on… Any fix?
I can assure you that someone posting Javascript on a single page will not bring down all websites on an IP address. I don’t know what is going on with your website, but if you can please submit a new topic in the Support Forums category and fill in the topic template, then I can try to help you.
