[aroman]

Looks like another DoS attack:

"0:18 UTC GitHub.com is recovering at this time from a DoS attack. We're continuing to monitor things and will provide further updates as the situation develops."

Is there really no way to protect from these attacks!?

[Negitivefrags]

There is a way. Have more bandwidth then your attacker.

DDoS protection services exist that forward the good traffic on to you, and they do this by having excessively large amounts of bandwidth. They also cost obscene amounts of money.

[remosi]

Google has a little known service that does DDoS mitigation for you (amongst other things) called PageSpeed service[1], which is (currently) free[2]. They also do various optimisations for your site, and support things like caching, SPDY and IPv6.

(disclaimer: I'm a google employee, but not on the page speed service).

[1] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service/faq#mo...

[2] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service/pricin...

[aroman]

Right, like CloudFlare's services. I remember reading the postmortems from that very large attack a few months back.

Surely GitHub must have the money to beef up their pipes, no? Or perhaps they're noticing that these outages aren't really hurting their bottom line, and thus it's not worth the investment...