We (GitHub) were DDoS'd the other week when members of an open source project hosted on the site got upset at the other members and wanted to make the entire ec

We (GitHub) were DDoS'd the other week when members of an open source project hosted on the site got upset at the other members and wanted to make the entire ecosystem around the project suffer. Not saying that's what happened to BitBucket, but it could be a similar reason. Talking with Sourceforge, it sounds stuff like this happens fairly regularly. It's one of the disadvantages of running a site that has members capable of doing this stuff.