<story><title>What&apos;s up with HN?</title><text>I&apos;ll provide more details in a full writeup later.&lt;p&gt;We suffered a DDOS. The volume of traffic was sufficient to keep us from handling it in Arc like we always have before. Simply accepting and dropping all requests not from our office required 45% CPU utilization.&lt;p&gt;Now nginx is helping with some of the work. Ironically the transition was planned for today anyway, except it was meant to happen at night with no downtime. So it goes.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m fixing things as I find they&apos;re broken.  Please let me know if I&apos;ve missed anything.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Yes, I know about and will fix all the SSL resources. Like yours, my Chrome window was also a portal to the &apos;90s for a bit.&lt;p&gt;Edit Again: Your SSL resources should now be happy. Let me know if I missed any.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>borlak</author><text>A DDOS of HN is quite strange indeed.  There should be some kind of ransom involved, but seeing as HN doesn&apos;t make money (I assume) from these forums, there is nothing to ransom.</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I guess the rule is that you know you&apos;re making it as a startup when somebody sues you. You know you&apos;re making it as a website when they DDOS you.&lt;p&gt;Geesh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redthrowaway</author><text>Why would it have to be for gain?  I bet there&apos;s plenty of bored people with idle small- to medium-sized botnets who&apos;d take down a somewhat popular site just for lulz.</text></comment>
<story><title>What&apos;s up with HN?</title><text>I&apos;ll provide more details in a full writeup later.&lt;p&gt;We suffered a DDOS. The volume of traffic was sufficient to keep us from handling it in Arc like we always have before. Simply accepting and dropping all requests not from our office required 45% CPU utilization.&lt;p&gt;Now nginx is helping with some of the work. Ironically the transition was planned for today anyway, except it was meant to happen at night with no downtime. So it goes.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m fixing things as I find they&apos;re broken.  Please let me know if I&apos;ve missed anything.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Yes, I know about and will fix all the SSL resources. Like yours, my Chrome window was also a portal to the &apos;90s for a bit.&lt;p&gt;Edit Again: Your SSL resources should now be happy. Let me know if I missed any.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>borlak</author><text>A DDOS of HN is quite strange indeed.  There should be some kind of ransom involved, but seeing as HN doesn&apos;t make money (I assume) from these forums, there is nothing to ransom.</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I guess the rule is that you know you&apos;re making it as a startup when somebody sues you. You know you&apos;re making it as a website when they DDOS you.&lt;p&gt;Geesh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manojlds</author><text>For the people doing it, the gain can be about trying out their skills, not being bored, and getting the bragging rights of having DDoSed &quot;Hacker&quot; News.</text></comment>