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That doesn't look anything like the attack on GitHub. His server buckled from a couple of thousand requests because his webserver was misconfigured. GitHub prob
by xorcist 12y ago
That doesn't look anything like the attack on GitHub. His server buckled from a couple of thousand requests because his webserver was misconfigured. GitHub probably handles an order of magnitude more requests on any normal day.
- semi-extrinsic 12y agoI'm not sure you understand the concept of "order of magnitude". Taken literally, you're saying you think Github handles 10 000 requests per day, which is about a factor of 10 000 to 100 000 (4-5 orders of magnitude) too low.
- xorcist 12y agoNo. Per second. That would work out to ~ 1 M req/day. I have absolutely no idea if that's in the right ballpark or not, my point was that the misconfiguration that took down some guy's web server has absolutely nothing in common with what Github faces.
- semi-extrinsic 12y agoOk, per second it makes more sense. I couldn't find hard stats either, but one semi-dubious-looking traffic tracker said github.com sees 10 million req/day. It looked like that was for just the front page; how do we even define what a request is? For more reliable sources such as Alexa you have to pay to get these numbers.