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Github is down

by sazpaz on 8/4/13, 12:06 AM with 22 comments

• by lukashed on 8/4/13, 12:20 AM

  This has probably been asked in one of the hundreds "GitHub is down" posts in the last few months, but what are the alternatives (apart from bitbucket)?

• by lukashed on 8/4/13, 12:27 AM

  They seem to cheat with their "Mean Web Response Time". As you can see in the graph, at the time the App Server Availability is down to 0, the Response Time is also 0, where it should be ∞, or at least the timeout time. This would reflect the real mean response time, or am I wrong?

  Edit: It was just one spike that went down to 0, directly after it there's a higher spike. (It didn't change the mean response time of 113ms, though)

• by aroman on 8/4/13, 12:20 AM

  Looks like another DoS attack:

  "0:18 UTC GitHub.com is recovering at this time from a DoS attack. We're continuing to monitor things and will provide further updates as the situation develops."

  Is there really no way to protect from these attacks!?

• by AznHisoka on 8/4/13, 12:13 AM

  So the one time i decided to deploy my code to production.. Github goes down? What gives?!

• by AYBABTME on 8/4/13, 12:36 AM

  {{quotePraisingDVCS}}

• by oakaz on 8/4/13, 12:24 AM

  Who is making DDos attacks to Github ? and why?

• by leishulang on 8/4/13, 12:19 AM

  and .... it's up now