Code hosting provider ceases trading after “well-orchestrated” DDoS attack

This should serve as warning to anyone relying blindly on cheap cloud to keep themselves up and running.

This also remind me of importance of offline tape backup. Google still uses tapes[1], yet some of the companies have started thinking they can eliminate tapes and move their backups to cloud.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM