# Netlify: Load Balancer DDoS

> Netlify status incident “Load Balancer DDoS” on 2016-08-22: impact minor (vendor’s label), 0 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/netlify/incidents/5bw6m21wrz2x
Last updated: 2016-08-22T15:00:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2016-08-22 15:00 UTC · Resolved: 2016-08-22 15:00 UTC · Duration: 0 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.netlifystatus.com/incidents/5bw6m21wrz2x](https://www.netlifystatus.com/incidents/5bw6m21wrz2x)
- [Company: Netlify](https://rewindex.com/company/netlify.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2016-08-22 15:00 UTC: During a DDoS attack, customers using our Load Balancer IP directly as an A record in DNS suffered degraded website service. This degradation lasted several hours. A thorough learning review from the experience was posted here: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/08/23/august-22nd-ddos-learning-review/

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by Netlify, started 2016-08-22 15:00 UTC, resolved after 0 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/netlify/incidents/5bw6m21wrz2x
- Citation: Netlify, “Load Balancer DDoS” (2016-08-22 15:00 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/netlify/incidents/5bw6m21wrz2x (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[Netlify: Load Balancer DDoS (2016-08-22)](https://rewindex.com/company/netlify/incidents/5bw6m21wrz2x)`


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