GitHub is being DDoS'd

[Ipquarx]

Guys, apparently GitHub is being DDoS'd by someone.

https://status.github.com/graphs/past_day

Whose doing this and WHY?! Seriously, what has GitHub done wrong??

[Ad Bot]

[Evar678]

Yeah, this is bullstuff.

[Nonnel]

What's GitHub?

[Decepticon]

What's GitHub?

[xHerobrinex]

What's GitHub?

[PurpleMetro]

oh my sweet applecorn how do you not know what github is?!

[Skull Candy]

oh my sweet applecorn how do you not know what github is?!

uhhh...

What's GitHub?

[PurpleMetro]

Alright it's a site for scripters or teams of them who can create public or private repositories and post code files to share throughout the team, or just for backup if it's a 1-man scripter I guess. That's all I know.

[MARBLE MAN]

they spelled apologize wrong

Today

22:47 UTCWe are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to mitigate. The site may be slow to respond, and you may struggle to pull/push code via SSH - we apologise for any inconvenience.
22:39 UTCWe're seeing reports of some packet loss and are investigating.

March 18, 2013

15:18 UTCEverything operating normally.
15:16 UTCWe are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to mitigate. The site may be slow to respond and we apologise for any inconvenience.

apologise is spelled both apologise and apologize

What's GitHub?

Git hub is basically
a giant code forum for programmers

GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both paid plans for private repositories, and free accounts for open source projects. As of May 2011, GitHub was the most popular open source code repository site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
Owned, brian, it is written in ruby(and erlang)

[NotKreation]

Alright it's a site for scripters or teams of them who can create public or private repositories and post code files to share throughout the team, or just for backup if it's a 1-man scripter I guess. That's all I know.

"MAN I FEEL LIKE DOWNLOADING SOME SCRIPTS I THINK I'LL BROWSE GITHUB."
Why is it a big deal that it's being DDoS'd?

[Nonnel]

Git hub is basically
a giant code forum for programmers

GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both paid plans for private repositories, and free accounts for open source projects. As of May 2011, GitHub was the most popular open source code repository site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
Owned, brian, it is written in ruby

OH THAT.