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by RKearney 4806 days ago
Here's the article I read that lead me to write that comment.

http://phoboslab.org/log/2013/02/how-much-traffic-is-too-muc...

Essentially the site was just one html page that had endless scrolling and loaded hundreds of images. CloudFlare declared the site as being under a "Layer 7 Attack" even though it wasn't.