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by ryaneager 1087 days ago
You really think one lone repo could take down all of GitHub? If GitHub doesn’t have stops in place to prevent that then they honestly deserve it.
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So doing a DoS attacks from a single machine is fine, because "your servers can handle that"? Really? Of course GitHub can handle this, but if the sole purpose is to see where's the limit, you're stressing our servers and wasting our resources for nothing. I'd ban you no questions asked. Go test perf/scalability issues on someone else's live site.