GitHub is down again for the second time in the span of a month —  this time from a  Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS). To combat, GitHub says it has temporarily disabled service on port 80 while they nvestigate the source of a connection flood.  According to the site, HTTPS, GIT, and SSH service are unaffected.

Here’s the status update about the attack when it hit at 1:33 p.m:

We are experiencing issues due to a DDOS attack, working hard to restore service

Here’s their status update posted at 1:05 p.m.

We’re experiencing some connectivity issues at the moment. GitHub.com is currently unavailable while we resolve this.

Last month,  a database migration went awry  on GitHub causing an outage and poor availability.

Disruptions have nagged GitHub over the past week. Two minor disruptions occurred yesterday and the day before.

Update: GitHub has in its site that says performance is stabilizing.  They are investigating additional mitigation strategies to harden against future attacks, similar or otherwise.

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