DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com • Hacker News Board

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by TallGuyShort » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 4:32 PM UTC

joeblau wrote: post #6

Justsignedup wrote: post #3

what is digitalocean? These ddos attacks are kind of like free marketing campaigns :)

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/

I recognized their name from Packer.io, for which there is a DigitalOcean-specific builder: http://www.packer.io/docs/builders/digitalocean.html.

Given that it's a fairly new project and DigitalOcean is a relatively unknown cloud (relative to EC2 the other cloud-based builder in Packer.io), I wondered if they had also perhaps contributed heavily to the project. That's another good way to see a sharp rise in popularity from developers!

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by pfraze » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 4:35 PM UTC

d23 wrote: post #19

bencollier49 wrote: post #11

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.

> 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 b…

To be fair-- and sorry to DigitalOcean guys that are reading this, but this is honest feedback-- that ad really bugs me. It's got the "rockstar-itus." It's hard to pin down why that feels condescending, but it does.

I hear really good things about the service, though, so kudos to DigitalOcean for that.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by druiid » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 4:39 PM UTC

Nux wrote: post #20

I 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?

Well, it all depends. If it's a major customer affecting outage it should certainly be posted to your guys status page. I imagine you don't work at a HN 'echo-chamber' company like DigitalOcean though, I imagine not many people will be interested in hearing about it here :P.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by philip1209 » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 4:42 PM UTC

mitchwainer wrote: post #10

UPDATE: The attack has been resolved and the site and control panel are loading normally. Learn more: https://status.digitalocean.com/

Your status page doesn't clearly convey that the issue has been resolved. Perhaps a green bar stating "RESOLVED" at the top in addition to the check mark would make it more clear (in addition to being usable by screen readers).

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by diziet » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 5:00 PM UTC

bencollier49 wrote: post #11

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.

You can potentially install adblock and never see said ad (or any other ad) unless you need to disable adblock. It's a case of simple and effective retargetting.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by andrewryno » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 5:02 PM UTC

d23 wrote: post #19

bencollier49 wrote: post #11

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.

> 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 b…

I don't believe it's YouTube that he's complaining but rather the retargeting campaign by DigitalOcean themselves. I've had a few companies that retarget me on YouTube relentlessly. Ads themselves don't bother me, but seeing the same one dozens of times a day gets irritating.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by txutxu » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 5:07 PM UTC

Justsignedup wrote: post #3

what is digitalocean? These ddos attacks are kind of like free marketing campaigns :)

Marketing... I've seen people converting (catastrophic) human errors in that kind of marketing, where you look so professional dealing with "the attack". Now each time I see DDoS news, I question myself about it.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by lucasmo » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 5:12 PM UTC

mitchwainer wrote: post #16

bencollier49 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I also see this ad repeatedly. It doesn't bother me at all, but I thought I should comment in case it helps making your campaign more effective.

Just to show you how much it shows up: my WIFE already recognizes it, just from hearing it when I'm working by her side.

I'm sure retargeting works in some context, but I'm guessing you are overdoing it in some cases. (I'm in Brazil, but I browse mostly in English. Maybe it makes me a particular case?).

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by yatsyk » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 5:12 PM UTC

diziet wrote: post #25

bencollier49 wrote: post #11

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.

You can potentially install adblock and never see said ad (or any other ad) unless you need to disable adblock. It's a case of simple and effective retargetting.

Adblock works for desktop browser. But I watch youtube on mobile or android media player in app mostly.

Re: DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

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Post by mitchwainer » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 5:12 PM UTC

philip1209 wrote: post #24

mitchwainer wrote: post #10

UPDATE: The attack has been resolved and the site and control panel are loading normally. Learn more: https://status.digitalocean.com/

Your status page doesn't clearly convey that the issue has been resolved. Perhaps a green bar stating "RESOLVED" at the top in addition to the check mark would make it more clear (in addition to being usable by screen readers).

Noted. Thanks for the feedback.