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What can we do when GitHub is "Down"...?

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GitHub get's "**_taken_ down**" by "**DDOS**" on a _fairly regular_ basis...

![github-no-server-available-error](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/194400/22106229/a7d64d88-de3f-11e6-9a46-724cd754e729.png)

![major-service-outage](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/194400/22106284/e3f59c56-de3f-11e6-814e-a0f93b5aa5d2.png)

See:
+ http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/ddos-attacks-that-crippled-github-linked-to-great-firewall-of-china/
+ https://github.com/blog/1981-large-scale-ddos-attack-on-github-com
+ https://www.hackread.com/ddos-attack-dns-sites-suffer-outage/

Should we consider "backing up" our GitHub issues in `case` the DDOS is _worse_ the `next time`....?

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