GitHub was down

wluu wrote: post #3

Yeah, there was a brief major service outage according to the status page. https://status.github.com/messages Today 1:45 UTC Major service outage.

2:01 UTC We're still experiencing a large DDoS attack. The site is experiencing major packet loss and is mostly unavailable. We're working to further mitigate the attack.

Re: GitHub was down

#5

Post by heyitsgarrett » Wed, Jun 12, 2013, 2:06 AM UTC

Genuine question – who DDoSes Github? From what I've seen, DDoS attacks often seem to be a response to a site or company entering the political sphere in a controversial way.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by jborden13 » Wed, Jun 12, 2013, 2:07 AM UTC

veemjeem wrote: post #2

Crazy how many people are affected when github goes down for less than 2 minutes.

There goes our plans for a release tonight. This DDoS seems to be a fundamental flaw of popular SaaS services.

Re: GitHub was down

#7

Post by not_chriscohoat » Wed, Jun 12, 2013, 2:08 AM UTC

Unfortunately this occurred at the exact moment I was deploying some changes. Makes me think that being so dependent on GitHub for a production code repo is a little big dangerous.

Redundancy would certainly solve this issue, though.

Re: GitHub was down

#8

Post by AYBABTME » Wed, Jun 12, 2013, 2:09 AM UTC

heyitsgarrett wrote: post #5

Genuine question – who DDoSes Github? From what I've seen, DDoS attacks often seem to be a response to a site or company entering the political sphere in a controversial way.

In previous threads about Github being DDoS'd, I asked the same question.

Apparently it's some scheme to ask ransom from companies/startups that have enough money to pay and/or not enough infrastructure to sustain the attack without giving up.

Re: GitHub was down

#9

Post by bennyg » Wed, Jun 12, 2013, 2:09 AM UTC

jborden13 wrote: post #6

veemjeem wrote: post #2

Crazy how many people are affected when github goes down for less than 2 minutes.

There goes our plans for a release tonight. This DDoS seems to be a fundamental flaw of popular SaaS services.

It's already back up (for me at least).

Re: GitHub was down

#10

Post by jamesbritt » Wed, Jun 12, 2013, 2:10 AM UTC

veemjeem wrote: post #2

Crazy how many people are affected when github goes down for less than 2 minutes.

I happily created a new Github repo, imported some code, made some changes and pushed stuff, all OK. And just now when I want to post announcements of my new library, bam! Github is down.

Mostly I don't care if they are periodically unvailable, but the timing on this was amusing.