UPDATE: As of 7-Nov-2012 (and likely before) this connection reset problem does not appear to be occurring anymore. Thank you Github!

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Uhoh.. every once and a while I get this error when trying to access my site: http://www.unleashed-web.org. When I hit “refresh” the problem vanishes (for a short time).

My site is hosted by Github. I began searching other websites that are hosted by github and I noticed that I would occasionally get the same “The connection was reset” error.

I contacted the Github support team and told them about the problem. They were very fast to investigate and respond:

This is a known issue with some of our DDoS hardware that’s in place. We’re currently working with our hosting provider to resolve this issue. Sorry for the inconvenience.

After some googling I realized that the Github servers have recently suffered some DDOS attacks and it seems as though they don’t have a fully working solution in place to deal with that yet.

Thank you to the github team for diligently working through the issues! In the mean time we’ll need to refresh our browsers every once and awhile to load github hosted websites.