<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>Maybe the some state actor &amp;#x2F; mafia drug lord... didn&amp;#x27;t like one of the customers and put enough effort to shut down the whole service.&lt;p&gt;Github was attacked by China before I believe for hosting some firewall by-passing software.&lt;p&gt;Maybe a competitor, but who would bother to go that low? I can&amp;#x27;t imagine any of the popular ones trying it -- too much risk it will be exposed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>agildehaus</author><text>Genuine question: What does anyone have to gain from Linode&amp;#x27;s misfortune?  What sort of group would do this?</text></item><item><author>jafingi</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s exactly what the reaction the attackers want.&lt;p&gt;However, what are the alternatives? Linode have been dead stable for me the past many years, and delivers what they promise in a transparent way. No overselling of servers. No sudden extra bills.&lt;p&gt;Linode will come out stronger after this, so it won&amp;#x27;t be able to happen on this scale again.&lt;p&gt;The big question is: Who, with a lot of money, would want to hurt Linode&amp;#x27;s business in this way? This isn&amp;#x27;t just a &amp;quot;script kiddie&amp;quot; having fun. It&amp;#x27;s a very well planned and powerful attack requiring buying large botnet capacity for an extensive amount of time.</text></item><item><author>gingerlime</author><text>I honestly love Linode and am sure they&amp;#x27;ll come out better as a result of this. But our customers aren&amp;#x27;t as understanding. Currently we&amp;#x27;re playing a bit of cat and mouse and with each data centre going down - we&amp;#x27;re switching our recovery process into gear and restoring to a different VPS (outside Linode). We have linodes on pretty much all locations, but if this continues at this rate, we simply won&amp;#x27;t have any linodes left there.&lt;p&gt;It would be very hard to justify going back to Linode afterwards, even with the best intentions to do so. &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;... So you seriously want us to go back to this hosting provider that caused us all this mess over Christmas &amp;#x2F; New Year&amp;#x27;s??&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linode DDoS continues – Atlanta down for 16+ hours</title><url>http://status.linode.com/incidents/cbbcjnhhpkgm</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mwill</author><text>A competitor seems like a pretty obvious answer.&lt;p&gt;But the vps market is fairly crowded, I can&amp;#x27;t imagine what attacking a single competitor would actually accomplish.</text><parent_chain><item><author>agildehaus</author><text>Genuine question: What does anyone have to gain from Linode&amp;#x27;s misfortune?  What sort of group would do this?</text></item><item><author>jafingi</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s exactly what the reaction the attackers want.&lt;p&gt;However, what are the alternatives? Linode have been dead stable for me the past many years, and delivers what they promise in a transparent way. No overselling of servers. No sudden extra bills.&lt;p&gt;Linode will come out stronger after this, so it won&amp;#x27;t be able to happen on this scale again.&lt;p&gt;The big question is: Who, with a lot of money, would want to hurt Linode&amp;#x27;s business in this way? This isn&amp;#x27;t just a &amp;quot;script kiddie&amp;quot; having fun. It&amp;#x27;s a very well planned and powerful attack requiring buying large botnet capacity for an extensive amount of time.</text></item><item><author>gingerlime</author><text>I honestly love Linode and am sure they&amp;#x27;ll come out better as a result of this. But our customers aren&amp;#x27;t as understanding. Currently we&amp;#x27;re playing a bit of cat and mouse and with each data centre going down - we&amp;#x27;re switching our recovery process into gear and restoring to a different VPS (outside Linode). We have linodes on pretty much all locations, but if this continues at this rate, we simply won&amp;#x27;t have any linodes left there.&lt;p&gt;It would be very hard to justify going back to Linode afterwards, even with the best intentions to do so. &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;... So you seriously want us to go back to this hosting provider that caused us all this mess over Christmas &amp;#x2F; New Year&amp;#x27;s??&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linode DDoS continues – Atlanta down for 16+ hours</title><url>http://status.linode.com/incidents/cbbcjnhhpkgm</url></story>