GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack

Re:GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack by briandear on Thursday August 15, 2013 @12:04PM (#6218684)

The so what is that the majority of people on HN are developers and the majority of them use Github either personally or with their teams. So a major outage is costing potentially millions of dollars in potentially lost developer time. If you calculate an average hourly of just $50 and a developer loses 20 minutes. Then that outage costs $17 x the number of affected developers. That's a pretty big loss.

I'm reading HN right now because I can't manage pull requests and do code reviews of my distributed team's code. So I'm just spinning in my chair.

That's the so-what.

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Re:GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack by rblstr on Thursday August 15, 2013 @12:12PM (#6218758)

You can't pull code from another node, i.e another developer? Git is distributed, if you want centralised source control use Perforce or SVN or something.

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Re:GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack by bdcravens on Thursday August 15, 2013 @12:31PM (#6218942)

You may want to reread the comment. It's more than being able to commit and pull via the command line.

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Re:GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack by briandear on Thursday August 15, 2013 @12:16PM (#6218808)

sure, and I can build a commenting and pull request system while I'm at it. It's highly inefficient to change workflow for an outage that might not last an hour.

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Re:GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack by sukaka on Thursday August 15, 2013 @12:25PM (#6218881)

yes you can pull from another node. you can also push to another node.

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Re:GitHub experiencing a large DDoS attack by wavee on Saturday August 17, 2013 @09:11PM (#6231125)

Github is under ddos at least once a month, how is this still a news worth upvoting here?

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