GitHub was down

Re:GitHub was down by antoineMoPa on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:25AM (#12178473)

I had just posted a link to an issue in github and when I tried to click it to see if it worked, I was wondering if I did anything wrong. Github has so much activity that many people could be thinking the same right now.

I also guess hundreds of persons are wondering if the commit they just pushed killed github's servers.

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Re:GitHub was down by oceaniity on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:28AM (#12178484)

I did the same. I spent a solid minute trying different things and googling to figure out what was wrong. Checked the status page and bam!

It's still down. :(

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Re:GitHub was down by antoineMoPa on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:31AM (#12178508)

Now there is a human Denial of Service attack because everyone is refreshing their pages like theres no tomorrow.

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Re:GitHub was down by eyelidlessness on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:46AM (#12178574)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem

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Re:GitHub was down by wckronholm on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:32AM (#12178510)

All DOS are because of humans?

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Re:GitHub was down by antoineMoPa on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:44AM (#12178562)

When used as an attack, the efficient method is to buy servers or to have a botnet to do it for you.

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Re:GitHub was down by wckronholm on Saturday July 30, 2016 @11:39AM (#12193412)

But a human sets it in motion.

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