The cloudflare messages will continue to appear until the attack subsides. The holding page is making a technical assessment that your request is genuine. If this wasn't done the site would typically be on its knees and unresponsive.

Without knowing the details this is most likely an attempt at blackmail. Assuming its blackmail, the attackers are waiting to see if the site owners pay the bitcoins (or other cryptocurrency) to stop the attack. At some point the budget the attackers have to fund the attack (they typically rent attack resource also paid in bitcoins) will run out, and everyone moves on. If you're really lucky law enforcement might get an angle on the perpetrators of the attack, but that's fairly rare.

Having seen the consequences of denial of service attacks elsewhere, FlyerTalk are at a technical level well prepared and have the right defenses in place, and although the holding page and database errors are inconvenient, they are doing the right thing so bear with them. At the current time the only thong iithink they could to do to improve might be a sticky announcement might help spread the word that they are busy working on the issue.

Checking your browser
 

What is it with this "checking your browser before accessing flyertalk.com" nonsense?

It's totally annoying.

Ditto.

I have no dog in the fight and no interest in Cloudflare and no reason to defend them against any statements, true or not, but your comment piqued my interest and so I went looking for what you're alluding to...and I don't see it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudf..._controversies

I've kind of always felt that Cloudflare was the lazy way out, but I have nothing to base that upon. Just curious, what would a better solution be?

Possible Security Breach
 

Hi IT / Admin I know you've been having issues last couple days and don't wish to add to them but could one of you PM about a sec breach I will spotted. Don't want to put details in open forum for obvious details but feel free to PM me or use the email registered to my account and will send you details.

Relative Newbie here so wasn't sure who to reach out to. Any knowledgeable FTs who know who is good for such things please tag them / make them aware if you would be so kind

Thanks in advance

Why would you not post further details? Kind of pointless without. Are you referring to the 'Checking Your Browser' message?

I got that today, LE, is that a known issue?

I seem to have been logged out of a couple sites on my home machine, this one and CC so far

Yeah, this is driving me nuts.

TURN IT OFF! Or at least find a better solution to block the attacks.

Please. :)

I get that the holding page is annoying, but do you have any suggestions on better solutions to keep web services up whilst unknown 3rd parties are trying to bring the site down in a sustained attack from many random and changing source addresses? If you don't have the holding page there would be no FlyerTalk at the moment.

How often has FT been under a DDOS attack? I cannot remember ever seeing these CloudFare messages before. Was I just not paying attention?