Ooopsie, I've stolen your joke and posted it on my FB page. :cheers:

I have tried many bar options - all hosted by somebody else. Not good. Finally have dropped the idea.

For social media I use share42 - you download everything (two files) on your own site. Works well for me.

Just for the record.

Survived another attack, but this time I have no suspects. In fact, several major Russian boards, including a couple discussing guns, have gone down because of such attacks and remain inaccessible for several days.

Mine was inaccessible only one day.

Apocalypto is nice. Agree on that one. I liked the Black Swan too - I like movies with a twist.

I watch a movie once a month. The latest one was "The Artist", a silent one (almost). Excellent!

For now, I've allowed access to the board only from specific countries (from where members are or which they visit for vacations/work). More or less. But because the server is located in the US, I have to allow access from there as well, and many malicious users use US proxy or Tor IPs.

Many thanks, guys. Checking your suggestions.
The board is for a few countries, but people check it when traveling in other countries, so I don't know how to go about it.

Yet, my question is: do you know of any easy ways to mitigate such attacks?

Will it help, for instance, to re-direct the page at which the attack is targeted to some non-existent site?

Just a former moderator.

Thousands of IPs were involved. From all over the world.

Hi guys, on March 12-13 a DDoS attack was carried out against my board, specifically aiming at /forum/index.php The board is located on a dedicated server so the attack didn't affect other users' websites. Is there something that can be done to mitigate such attacks? What are the dangers connected w...

I did that just by following the same procedure as for other elements. You can do without adding <div class="forumlist"> and </div>. On the subject, I made the mChat collapsible as well (couldn't stand a different section on the board without that -- button), but sure enough, fewer chats n...

There is a mod for that: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 9&t=587765
Don't know if I should bother...

Not always relevant. Sometimes funny. Depends on how well your users formulate topic subjects.

JaguarPC on my big board, and Hostgator for smaller sites. Never had issues with either. Technical problems do happen, but they are resolved fairly quickly and positively.