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Github: Major Service Outage
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#42Re: Github: Major Service Outage
#43They said they're under a DDoS attack https://twitter.com/github/statuses/259029493669310464
Who DDOS'es twitter? Mercurial committers? the Bitbucket people?
I heard once about a tire shop that drummed up business by strewing nails along the highway around it. Somewhere outside America; India or Thailand or somewhere else. Anyway, that kind of business practice wouldn't get you far in the Western world, so it seems unlikely.
OTOH, if I had a botnet and I wanted to see how powerfully it could DDOS without drawing a lot of mainstream media attention, github might be good for target practice. They have better infrastructure than most, and they always do detailed write-ups afterwards.
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#44Re: Github: Major Service Outage
#45Pfft, always down these days. BitBucket for me.
Nice try, Bitbucket marketing team. ;)
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#46I think it's probably my fault. Github seems to go down every time I start poking around in someone else's projects.
You damn chaos monkey ruining it for the rest of us.
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#47https://twitter.com/AnonymousOwn3r is taking credit for attacks against YouTube and GitHub amongst others.
Stop giving some idiot script kiddie the attention he wants. It's probably not him anyway.
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#48https://twitter.com/AnonymousOwn3r is taking credit for attacks against YouTube and GitHub amongst others.
I can take credit for winning my city's marathon, but only investigations will reveal the facts.
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#49Nothing against Github but this probably highlights the real benefit of DVCS: setting up multiple remotes for your repo. Manage it probably and when one service goes down, fall back to Bitbucket or another service. It would limit the potential damage these attacks could cause, given the reliance dev teams have on pushing code to a central repo. Taking down a site like Github has a fairly clear effect on the productiv…
It'd be glorious if one service (say GitHub) had multiple remote links that dynamically switched for you when service faced an outage.
If it's one service though there is still always a single point of failure outside of your control. If you want true redundancy you need to use multiple versions with no interconnections and develop your own solution to mitigate partial failure, of course your own solution is also a single point of failure, but at least it's under your control.
That said, Github has never been down long enough for me to justify a fallback procedure and policy for my team. The complexity of the solution outweighs the benefit. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
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#50Why do people always post on Hacker News whenever Github is offline?
It's not going to make Github go online any quicker. They have a Twitter account, you know.