My thoughts exactly. I'm inclined to believe with another commenter that they just picked GitHub as testing grounds. Especially depending on the sum of money d

My thoughts exactly. I'm inclined to believe with another commenter that they just picked GitHub as testing grounds. Especially depending on the sum of money demanded, I can imagine it being cheaper to either spin up more servers to handle the load, or hire a DDoS specialist to help you out, or make it someone else's problem by moving behind a thirdparty CDN.