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GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack
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Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack
#32You git what you pay for.
(Actually, there are long established yet less high profile alternatives with decent features and better pricing for commercial teams, like beanstalk or unfuddle or codebasehq. No hip cred, but for example supporting archived projects that you can read w/o using up your repo count license.)
Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack
#33This is getting really problematic. It stops our whole team every time. Anybody has experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI? How's the flow compared to Github, especially for pull requests, commenting and collaboration?
This happens to our team too. Does anyone else find it ironic that Git is a distributed version control system, yet we rushed to centralize it and base our entire workflow around GitHub?
Github is just a node. IF Github dies , people still have the full repos on their computers.That's not always the case with SVN... And most people are too lazy/dont have resources to set up a git server anyway.
Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack
#34Curious though -- yesterday it was the NYTimes, today github, Apple a few weeks before that. Pretty high profile stuff in my opinion.
Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack
#35I do not understand why GitHub get attacked so often - honestly it's not like they are doing anything wrong, they are a fabulous service and the go-to place for most (if not all) developers for all sorts of projects, be it open source or in an enterprise/corporate context.
Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack
#36I ask because I have no plausible answer: What does someone stand to gain by DDoSing github?
blackmailing ? "if you dont pay we'll DDOS you" or whatever. Given all these infected Windows computers all over the world ,it's not going to stop soon. That's the Microsoft legacy.
It'll only get worse in April when XP goes off life support.
Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack
#37You git what you pay for. (Actually, there are long established yet less high profile alternatives with decent features and better pricing for commercial teams, like beanstalk or unfuddle or codebasehq. No hip cred, but for example supporting archived projects that you can read w/o using up your repo count license.)
Unfuddle, while good for its day, is not even close to GitHub. It's woefully out of date, slow, and temperamental in ways that are frustrating. The closest thing going is Bitbucket which is a pretty good competitor for GitHub...in 2010.
Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack
#38This is getting really problematic. It stops our whole team every time. Anybody has experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI? How's the flow compared to Github, especially for pull requests, commenting and collaboration?
Have you tried Jenkins as a CI server? While the core Gitlab product is quite nice, the feedback I've heard on the CI component is that it becomes problematic once builds become non-trivial (though to be fair, I've heard this mostly from Jenkins folks).
We just built our own build scripts (in make(1) like god intended) and wrap jenkins around that. Pretty hard to go wrong with tech that's been tested for the last 35 years
Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack
#39You git what you pay for. (Actually, there are long established yet less high profile alternatives with decent features and better pricing for commercial teams, like beanstalk or unfuddle or codebasehq. No hip cred, but for example supporting archived projects that you can read w/o using up your repo count license.)
This argument also works the other way. We payed less for beanstalk and got half the features. Sure it was a remote git repo, but our use case for GitHub is more than just external storage, and we were able to remove other tools that we were paying for.
Re: GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used GitLab by myself, it works really well and since V5 is super easy to get installed.
Is there a VM image like Github enterprise?
BitNami keeps up-to-date Gitlab VMs and Installers: http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab