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DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com

by educanon on 8/27/13, 2:19 PM with 42 comments

• by bencollier49 on 8/27/13, 3:40 PM

  These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action".

  Perhaps someone finally snapped and DDOS'd them.

• by mitchwainer on 8/27/13, 3:40 PM

  UPDATE: The attack has been resolved and the site and control panel are loading normally. Learn more: https://status.digitalocean.com/

• by Nux on 8/27/13, 4:19 PM

  I work in a DC and DDOSes happen very frequently. Because everyone can hire a botnet for 50 euros, there will be even more coming.

  Should I post to HN every time my company gets hit?

• by Justsignedup on 8/27/13, 3:13 PM

  what is digitalocean? These ddos attacks are kind of like free marketing campaigns :)

• by xfour on 8/27/13, 3:13 PM

  Yea, status seems accurate at this point, my "Droplets" and Hypervisor seem to be working just fine, well done DigitalOcean team.