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oceaniity on July 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub was down

I did the same. I spent a solid minute trying different things and googling to figure out what was wrong. Checked the status page and bam!

It's still down. :(

antoineMoPa on July 28, 2016 [–]

Now there is a human Denial of Service attack because everyone is refreshing their pages like theres no tomorrow.

eyelidlessness on July 28, 2016 | | [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem

wckronholm on July 28, 2016 | | [–]

All DOS are because of humans?

antoineMoPa on July 28, 2016 | | [–]

When used as an attack, the efficient method is to buy servers or to have a botnet to do it for you.

wckronholm on July 30, 2016 | | [–]

But a human sets it in motion.

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