GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

Re:GitHub is "experiencing major service outages" by rfctr on Friday July 19, 2013 @09:19AM (#6069939)

Is there a good counter-measure against DDoS? I believe there is none. Commercial services help but only up to certain traffic level.

Tomorrow Bitbucket can get under the same attack.

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Re:GitHub is "experiencing major service outages" by joeblau on Friday July 19, 2013 @09:37AM (#6070018)

There are some good counter measures. CloudFlare, the CDN that I'm using for my site http://gitignore.io helps mitigate DDoS's [1]. Github also took a good step by separating the source code domain github.com from the pages domain github.io [2]. I agree that tomorrow Atlassian could suffer a DDoS attack but I feel like since they are a more mature company, they have a lot more experience dealing with that type of attack.

[1] - http://www.cloudflare.com/ddos

[2] - https://github.com/blog/1452-new-github-pages-domain-github-...

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Re:GitHub is "experiencing major service outages" by Thaxll on Friday July 19, 2013 @09:40AM (#6070031)

anycast + lot of bandwidth are the best solution against DDoS.

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Re:GitHub is "experiencing major service outages" by aroch on Friday July 19, 2013 @09:43AM (#6070053)

There comes a point where there isn't enough bandwidth you can buy...Reflection and amplification attacks can, very quickly, generate in the 100's of Gbps worth of traffic. IT simply isn't economical to keep that much bandwidth at hand all the time.

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