GitHub Down

5 points by kevinastone 13y ago ↗ HN

GitHub is unreachable at the moment for both web and ssh (for me at least).

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kevinastone 13y ago ↗

They've updated their status to indicate they're under a DDoS attack impeding access to their systems:

https://status.github.com

niggler 13y ago ↗

Is every period of downtime due to a DDoS, or has it become the industry catch-all phrase?

Socketubs 13y ago ↗

me too.

niggler 13y ago ↗

http://isup.me/github.com

It's not just you! http://github.com looks down from here.

websitescenes 13y ago ↗

I have only been using github for a brief period of time so I am not sure about their track record. Is this a common thing? Seems to be happening fairly frequently... I don't keep commercial products on Github but still a little annoying. If it is a DDos, I must ask why? Who would want to do that? A competitor is the only answer I can think of.