Annoucement:Forums Back Online and Story

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==This post is writen in Arre's Point of view==
I'm glad to say that the forums are finally back online. I don't know who took it offline but it was a pain in the ass to mitigate. 
So i woke up around 7:30 AM (for those who don't know me this is really early for me ) and found out that the website was offline (arteropk.com & deviouspk.com).I got deviouspk.com up & running quite fast (Rerouted the traffic through cloudflare) and enabled the cloudflare protection for arteropk.com aswell wich got us back online, for 2 short minutes....
So i started digging...I logged on the server and checked the server its resources: our Octo-Core processor was spiking at 100% (#DAFUQ?)So i checked the logs (picture) and it became instantly clear: We are under attack (Layer 7 DDOS)!
I contacted cloudflare with this information but they told me they couldn't do anything because the attack was going straight for the server so they were powerless to do anything about it. (#DAFUQ 2?)After some googling i found out that it is possible to get a server's ip even when it's behind cloudflare protection. So i changed the server's ip and tried to hide it better. That worked for about 10 minutes. But appearently the attack found another way to get the new server's ip.So i had 2 options:1.Change ip's again and try to find out how the fuck he found the new ip.2. Find a better solution.
Needless to say i found a better solution.I started thinking: I can't block the ip's in the firewall because there are just too many (probably big botnet) but what if i could allow the legit ip's and block all the others? Bingo!I blocked all the incoming traffic on the hardware firewall apart from the traffic that was coming from cloudflare.The cpu usage instantly dropped from 100% to 1% and i smiled because after 5 hours of fighting i knew i finally won
Short: We are back online-Arre