As the security system activated, it began blocking all traffic to the site to prevent losses.
Losses of data, or losses of bandwidth? If it was a DDOS, no data should be lost.
redirection of traffic through Cloudflare's DNS
Another one bites the dust. My site and BPIP have also been victims to DDOS in the past. What's the point?
To quote theymos:
The Internet is seriously flawed if everyone needs to huddle behind these huge centralized anti-DDoS companies in order to survive...
I just checked on my laptop, everything seems fine, I can see the images, no issue no broken images. But at the same time, as I check through my smartphone, all the images are broken.
Your laptop is probably taking them from cache.