There is a way. Have more bandwidth then your attacker.
DDoS protection services exist that forward the good traffic on to you, and they do this by having excessively large amounts of bandwidth. They also cost obscene amounts of money.
DDoS protection services exist that forward the good traffic on to you, and they do this by having excessively large amounts of bandwidth. They also cost obscene amounts of money.
(disclaimer: I'm a google employee, but not on the page speed service).
[1] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service/faq#mo...
[2] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service/pricin...
Surely GitHub must have the money to beef up their pipes, no? Or perhaps they're noticing that these outages aren't really hurting their bottom line, and thus it's not worth the investment...