Pastie.org host pulls hosting after DDoS attack
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Re: Pastie.org host pulls hosting after DDoS attack
#2Sounds like an opportunity for the other managed Rails hosts.
Re: Pastie.org host pulls hosting after DDoS attack
#3I really enjoyed this, the user experience is very nice and its a well designed site.
I tend to use Gist now because its improved and I have a client for it, but this is a shame to see.
Re: Pastie.org host pulls hosting after DDoS attack
#4This is a good chance to move over to http://gist.github.com for all your pasting needs.
Re: Pastie.org host pulls hosting after DDoS attack
#5DDOS attacks are a fact of life, nice to know that Rails Machine will throw you under the bus when one happens. Doesn't seem to fit their homepage description: "You write Rails apps. We deploy, manage, support, monitor, and scale them. Done."
Re: Pastie.org host pulls hosting after DDoS attack
#6I can not understand these attacks. Why block a service that is free of charge, useful and did no harm? Unless of course this DDoS was not targeted, which makes even less sense to me.
Also, why did Rails Machine throw out the site so quickly? If I choose to sponsor someone out of my free will, I'd do so without distinction from paying customers.
Re: Pastie.org host pulls hosting after DDoS attack
#7Perhaps an opportunity for Cloudflare to offer support?
Re: Pastie.org host pulls hosting after DDoS attack
#8I can not understand these attacks. Why block a service that is free of charge, useful and did no harm? Unless of course this DDoS was not targeted, which makes even less sense to me. Also, why did Rails Machine throw out the site so quickly? If I choose to sponsor someone out of my free will, I'd do so without distinction from paying customers.
Just guessing, but maybe someone didn't like the content of a stored public "pastie"?
Re: Pastie.org host pulls hosting after DDoS attack
#9Clearly the gist.github engineers DDoSed them - it's all so clear!
Re: Pastie.org host pulls hosting after DDoS attack
#10I can not understand these attacks. Why block a service that is free of charge, useful and did no harm? Unless of course this DDoS was not targeted, which makes even less sense to me. Also, why did Rails Machine throw out the site so quickly? If I choose to sponsor someone out of my free will, I'd do so without distinction from paying customers.
Just guessing, but maybe someone didn't like the content of a stored public "pastie"?
... and had too much time on their hands. Seriously, when something is offending me, I contact the author and webmaster first. Not take the whole cluster down.