As a result of the outage described in October 9/2014 Update, I have moved the BID Community website behind CloudFlare, a service that has demonstrated its ability to manage Distributed Denial of Service attacks, provides an additional layer of spammer/hacker filters and improves website responsiveness. An additional benefit is that it can enable secure browsing between the end-user and CloudFlare. I need your help in testing how well this service works. Please visit https://bioinspired.sinet.ca and let me know if you see any problems. At the moment, the https:// prefix that enables the secure browsing does not always 'stick' as you move around the site - that will be resolved when I enable it as the default method of accessing the BID Community website.
My local spammer/hacker filters are now using CloudFlare to block the miscreants. The good news is that I won't even see the traffic. The bad news is that CloudFlare has a long memory. If you get a message about being blocked by CloudFlare, please contact me ASAP so that I can clear the 'watch list'.
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