<story><title>Github: Major Service Outage</title><url>https://status.github.com/?a</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zheng</author><text>First off, as others have said, disabling port 80 is a great way to handle this, I don&apos;t really care that much if I can see/use github the website for a few hours, but I&apos;d be much more upset if I couldn&apos;t pull my code.&lt;p&gt;Secondly, I kind of like when big sites go down when I&apos;m not in desperate need because it means a really nice aftermath write up is on the way.  Can&apos;t wait to hear more about this one.</text></comment>
<story><title>Github: Major Service Outage</title><url>https://status.github.com/?a</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>creativityhurts</author><text>They said they&apos;re under a DDoS attack &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/github/statuses/259029493669310464&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/github/statuses/259029493669310464&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>