alt Hacker NewsI assume it's related to their reasoning for the outage in the first place... "increased load", which to me sounds like a DDoS.
The login redirect probably stops a lot of the traffic, and from closer to the edge of their network.
I assume it's related to their reasoning for the outage in the first place... "increased load", which to me sounds like a DDoS.
The login redirect probably stops a lot of the traffic, and from closer to the edge of their network.
I mean... If I was operating on shared resources, this would be a good mitigation. But an almost static status page should be operated differently to core M364 services.
Or in other words: all hammering on a status page should have near zero effect on services currently affected.