Recently EuroGA has started to identify itself as “Just a moment…” which is rather odd and a bit silly/funny 
This is in Google Chrome using “most visited sites” in the Shortcuts (show shortcuts).
Can you get a screenshot?
That is a screenshot of the source code for this thread.
There is some funny stuff in that code e.g. dsc.net/kit is long dead. But that doesn’t affect anything.
I thought EuroGA put up some pop-up banner…
It is normal again now? I can post if it happens again.
I have no idea what it was, and not aware of any code in the forum which might put up such a message.
The one I know about is the one which says the server is too busy. We were getting that a lot during the recent DDOS attacks. But I think we have now blocked all those.
The message may have come from Cloudflare. EuroGA is behind CF and this is no secret, as anyone trying to bring our server down will find out. CF offers amazing facilities, even in its free version (available to nonprofit organisations). There are various captchas one can select, some visible to users (but 100% effective in blocking all attacks) and some, like the one we currently use, not visible. Some of these may put up such a message, sporadically. It is the price of living in “modern times”, and with some motivated ex forum people…
If it is a CF message, it is merely getting your browser to do some “work” and then should disappear.
Peter wrote:
The message may have come from Cloudflare.
It does! In Firefox the refresh pauses for a second and you can see it is Cloudflare.
With some settings it stop there and doesn’t progress any further.
Obviously I don’t want to post too much openly, but there is a sharp tradeoff between inconvenience and DDOS attack vulnerability. The attacker(s) got well organised recently, with a huge distributed net of for-rent zombie computers, mostly in the 3rd world (which on EuroGA we could just firewall, at a cost of a business CF sub) but many in the US (which I don’t really want to firewall). I have already firewalled ~1000 IP ranges of server farms which were used for this work earlier on, especially in certain countries in Europe.
