This mitigation is looking good for the moment. We'll continue to watch this and work with Cloudflare to keep these types of attacks proactively shut-down before they gather steam in the future.
Posted Jul 29, 2021 - 15:30 UTC
Monitoring
We've gone ahead and added Cloudflare as the CDN in front of the site. They should be able to catch and mitigate another DDoS attack.
As this change was a bit ahead of schedule, if you run into any issues being able to access the site send us an email hello@fontawesome.com.
Posted Jul 29, 2021 - 09:40 UTC
Identified
From our monitoring, the site is under a DDoS attack. We're working on some steps to mitigate now.