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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by foob on Friday April 19, 2013 @08:01AM (#5576120)
Reddit also got hammered pretty hard by legitimate traffic last night. There were many thousands of people in the Boston live update threads hitting refresh over and over all night. The admins actually locked the first update page because they said that so much traffic on an article with so many comments would crash the site.

If there's a malicious DDOS attack then this surge in legitimate traffic likely compounded the problem.

The update threads: [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1co395/live_updates_of... [2] http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cnwms/mods_removed_th...

Where the updates moved when reddit went down: [3] https://twitter.com/JpDeathBlade

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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by alienth on Friday April 19, 2013 @08:31AM (#5576241)
The traffic surge from the Boston incident is extremely marginal compared to the DDoS which we're facing right now. It is far and above any form of possibly being compounded, unfortunately.

But I wish it was :) Compounding I can deal with, astronomical is harder.

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