GitHub hit by DDoS attack second day in a row

Maybe it's because I just personally identify with the founders of github (i.e. entrepreneurial sw engineers), but I'm starting to get mad at whoever keeps doing this. Here's hoping that with all the smart people this is affecting, the people responsible will be tracked down and exposed.

Can we please use some of that 100 million investment to buy an infrastructure that is more resilient to these kinds of DDoS attacks?<p>Pretty please?<p>This is a service I pay for and my business relies on. Having it down three times in three days impacts our work.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding: I thought one goal of DVCS was to remove central points of failure? In that sense, isn't a central "hub" regressive?<p>I wonder if there's a way to host Git repositories with static files, say, on Amazon S3... That would be neat.

Who would try to disable github?

I can't wait to read their post-mortem. Must be pretty exciting.

It's pretty crazy how just a couple thousand LOICs can incapacitate a site as prominent as GitHub. I wonder how many machines are involved this time.

Anyone else having trouble connecting to GitHub via SSH from AWS?

Maybe I'm naive, but could they be stealing someone's code? Otherwise I think it's just someone who's trying to prove something.