Github is having a major service outage

This happens every other week. Does it really need to be posted on Hacker News <i>every</i> time? If you happen to be using Github at the time of the outage, you&#x27;re going to notice. If you don&#x27;t happen to be using Github at that time then it doesn&#x27;t affect you.<p>This doesn&#x27;t qualify for the <i>news</i> part of Hacker News.

I wonder how many people who use Github as part of their deployment work flow are impacted by outages like this. I know git is distributed, but I can imagine people with scripts that default to pulling from a github.com origin having to scramble to reconfigure.

Can I ask here? Why do a lot of companies insist on keeping their code on GitHub?<p>It seems expensive and they have many service outages from DDoS attacks.<p>It seems like someone could set up their 10 different git servers for a fraction of the price and have greater up-time due to redundancy.<p>And securing your own isn&#x27;t rocket science either...<p>What am I not seeing that is the big draw to github?

Probably a stupid question, but, what are the potential motivators behind DDoS-ing Github?