These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action".
Perhaps someone finally snapped and DDOS'd them.
DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com
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Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's an Infrastructure as a Service offering like Amazon's EC2, Linnode, Microsoft Azure, or Rackspace. Digital Ocean[1] has seen a sharp rise in popularity lately from developers due to ease of use and high performance VM's. [1] - https://www.digitalocean.com/
Are their VM's performance on the same level as the others you listed or higher? What do you base the "high performance" comment on?
They differentiate themselves by offering SSDs for all instance sizes + offering a very cheap level ($5). While SSDs won't improve all workloads, I think "high performance" claims compared to the typically IO-weak alternative isn't unreasonable.
Also, they're popular enough now that I'm surprised people haven't heard about them (especially after recent funding)...
Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com
#13what is digitalocean? These ddos attacks are kind of like free marketing campaigns :)
"are kind of like free marketing campaigns"
While people might laugh at what you are saying in the mid to late 90's many of the well know dot coms of today (ebay for example) got publicity because of bad things happening. People trying to sell things they shouldn't on ebay "my virginity for sale" etc. Always made the news.
I don't believe this was the intent here for sure but I do note that they say: "There is an on-going DDOS attack against digitalocean.com. No hypervisors or customer virtual servers should currently be affected by this attack."
But yet it is on the front page of HN. And now more people know about digitalocean (which has gotten a fair amount of press on HN it's where I heard of them).
Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com
#14These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action". Perhaps someone finally snapped and DDOS'd them.
You should only see the ad once on YouTube. We do apologize for this. Did you try clearing your cache?
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#15These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action". Perhaps someone finally snapped and DDOS'd them.
You should only see the ad once on YouTube. We do apologize for this. Did you try clearing your cache?
I did not! Do I have to watch it all the way to the bitter end to finally be rid of it? Because I have not done that.
Nice potential-customer-service btw. Thanks! Although I did rather imagine you lot would be all over this thread :-)
Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should only see the ad once on YouTube. We do apologize for this. Did you try clearing your cache?
I did not! Do I have to watch it all the way to the bitter end to finally be rid of it? Because I have not done that. Nice potential-customer-service btw. Thanks! Although I did rather imagine you lot would be all over this thread :-)
Let me know if you're still having problems.
Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com
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#18Yea, status seems accurate at this point, my "Droplets" and Hypervisor seem to be working just fine, well done DigitalOcean team.
Thanks! :)
Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com
#19These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action". Perhaps someone finally snapped and DDOS'd them.
> These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action".
Oh please tell me more about how the people helping to support the largest video database in the history of mankind -- available 24/7 at your fingertips for free -- are "plaguing" you with their relevant advertisements that take all of 5 seconds to skip.
If you really want to be a horse's ass, just get adblock and be done with it.
Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com
#20I work in a DC and DDOSes happen very frequently. Because everyone can hire a botnet for 50 euros, there will be even more coming.
Should I post to HN every time my company gets hit?