> We deal with ordinary DDoS attacks in the normal course of operations, and we are generally able to mitigate them on our end. However, this is not an ordinary

> We deal with ordinary DDoS attacks in the normal course of operations, and we are generally able to mitigate them on our end. However, this is not an ordinary DDoS attack; the attacker posesses considerable resources and is operating at a scale beyond that which we have the means to mitigate ourselves. In response, before we could do much ourselves to understand or mitigate the problem, our upstream network provider null routed SourceHut entirely, rendering both the internet at large, and SourceHut staff, unable to reach our servers. It feels like these days you need to be a customer of one of the internet giants, like CloudFlare, to prevent this. SourceHut has always flown in the face of that argument, seeking to prove that independent, good old-fashioned systems administration is all that's needed to run a website. I have loved their demonstrating this independent spirit. I hope that independence will still win here, despite attacks like this one.