I've gotten into the habit of using busy.org as my backup. It's layout is different and perhaps more pleasing to those not already super familiar with steemit, and it often is going just fine when the steemit.com website is down or slow. The blockchain powering it all has been unimpacted by the DDOS attacks and that is what busy.org, chainbb, steemit.com, esteem, and others all tap into.