Verified that no foreign files have been introduced on my origin server at DreamHost. Examined cloudflare traffic and security analytics
Was the site working with SSL prior to adding it to Cloudflare?
Yes
What is the current SSL/TLS setting?
Flexible
What are the steps to reproduce the issue?
I do not know. I can access my site here at home and on my phone. I find it impossible to believe that everyone on the planet suddenly all at the same time lost interest in it.
Inexplicable collapse of traffic from 100-150 unique visitors a day to 1-10 and from 500-2500 requests per day to 10-100 requests per day on August 14th to now. I have 1 piece of javascript code for the menu but no backend code no database. Its a static site. I already looked at my webhost and verified there were no foreign files added to my site directory. Cloudflare seems like a more likely problem source than every search engine and every web browser on Earth blocking my site.
Potentially related but not Cloudflare’s problem I suffered a suspected assassination attempt by car ramming on 8/15, my 40th birthday. I didnt see what happened but the woman from the several witnesses on a nearby porch who ran up to my car right after I got out said “Holy ■■■■, it looked like that guy hit you on purpose!”. I was pretty much unscathed thanks to modern safety features and luck but the car was totalled. The attacker drove away somehow and I assume either died of injuries or escaped.
It has been using cloudflare’s free plan which was included and integrated with my Dreamhost plan for many years. Here is a screenshot from today, just a minute ago
Ah, ok. Not seen that setup before. Someone else may know more. Have you asked Dreamhost? A sudden drop-off of traffic in the analytics usually means requests aren’t passing through Cloudflare, or passing through your Cloudflare account.
Not yet I only just discovered it. Traffic to my other domain, verysmallocean.org, which just proxies to savetheoxygen.org has not collapsed but is much lower. Seeing as savetheoxygen.org was written on many of the roughly 2,300 postcards I’ve sent in my mail art/poetry/activism project makes it even harder to explain because people can still just type it into the address bar. If the data is accurate and not just a problem with the analytics, it seems like you’d have to break into the Internet’s backbone DNS systems to make that happen, however that works…?
