How a volunteer-run wildfire site in Portugal stayed online during DDoS attacks
2025-08-215 min readOn July 31, 2025, just as Portugal entered the peak of another intense wildfire season, João Pina, also known as Tomahock, received an automated alert from Cloudflare. His volunteer-run project, fogos.pt, now a trusted source of real-time wildfire information for millions across Portugal, was under attack.
One of the several alerts fogos.pt received related to the DDoS attackWhat started in 2015 as a late-night side project with friends around a dinner table in Aveiro has gro...
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