Font Awesome incident

Slow response times from fontawesome.com

Resolved after 7 hours 2 minutes, affecting fontawesome.com, on July 29, 2021.

resolved Jul 29, 2021, 03:30 PM UTC

This mitigation is looking good for the moment. We'll continue to watch this and work with Cloudflare to keep these types of attacks proactively shut-down before they gather steam in the future.

Started
Jul 29, 2021, 08:28 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 29, 2021, 03:30 PM UTC
Duration
7h 2m
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 29, 2021, 08:28 AM UTC

Affected components

fontawesome.com

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jul 29, 2021, 08:28 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified Jul 29, 2021, 08:45 AM UTC

    From our monitoring, the site is under a DDoS attack. We're working on some steps to mitigate now.

  3. monitoring Jul 29, 2021, 09:40 AM UTC

    We've gone ahead and added Cloudflare as the CDN in front of the site. They should be able to catch and mitigate another DDoS attack. As this change was a bit ahead of schedule, if you run into any issues being able to access the site send us an email [email protected].

  4. resolved Jul 29, 2021, 03:30 PM UTC

    This mitigation is looking good for the moment. We'll continue to watch this and work with Cloudflare to keep these types of attacks proactively shut-down before they gather steam in the future.

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