DC site often doesn't load at all...

[kunkel321]

I'm not sure where to post this.  On some days (like today) the donationcoder.com site works fine.  But often, it will never load, and will time-out instead.  Sometimes I get to the CloudFlair page, sometimes not.  I live west of Seattle, WA.

[Ath]

Yesterday I've posted a similar message to mouser on the Discord general-discussion channel, but he hasn't responded yet.
I've seen the same behavior for several weeks now, usually about a failed TLS handshake (HTTP 525 error) between CF and the DC server. I live in the Netherlands, Europe (CET).

[rgdot]

As of this post I see "8,514 Guests, 1 User", I have seen similar numbers on my and other forums as well. Attacks and bot floods have gone way up in recent months. I don't know what server DC runs on these days but even a decent server can be brought to its knees by thousands of 'guests' testing the php resources and database connections. Cloudflare can help but that means putting up the human verification permanently and perhaps more.