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xxpor on Oct 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Github: Major Service Outage

Does anyone know where GitHub is hosted? I assume not AWS because status.github is on heroku (and therefore AWS).

shadowmatter on Oct 18, 2012 | [–]

They're on Rackspace:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/18/patent-complaint-filed-agai...

https://github.com/blog/493-github-is-moving-to-rackspace

csarva on Oct 18, 2012 | | [–]

The status site is on heroku/ec2 while the main services are on rackspace. Appears both are being attacked by one very unhappy camper.

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