If you’re wondering if GitHub has been down more since the Microsoft acquisition, I actually just recently did some analysis on that using their status page data (the answer is yes):<p><a href="https://nimbleindustries.io/2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-more-since-its-acquisition-by-microsoft/" rel="nofollow">https://nimbleindustries.io/2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-...</a>
Again? This is like the fourth time GitHub went down. Last time this happened was almost a week ago. [0]<p>Seriously, just consider self-hosting [1] rather than 'centralizing everything' [2]<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23604944" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23604944</a><p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23572532" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23572532</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803</a>
So many services rely on github that it has become a single point of failure for online infrastructure as we’ve come to know it. I remember seeing this shared many years ago [1] and not much seems to have changed in the interim. If anything the MS acquisition has only exacerbated matters.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.brandonsavage.net/github-your-single-point-of-failure/" rel="nofollow">https://www.brandonsavage.net/github-your-single-point-of-fa...</a>
Has anyone here tried self hosting Phabricator?<p>Some of our private repos are Mercurial so it would be nice to have both git and hg repos on a single platform.
Well, at least Microsoft hasn't had a Sidekick like event happen to GitHub. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sidekick_data_loss" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sidekick_data_loss</a>
99.95% SLA means less than 66 minutes of downtime is acceptable per quarter. I guess they will be offering credits to enterprise customers this time for the first time.<p>Edit: Correct a mistake but the time calculated is correct.
Sounds like a good time to run something like this <a href="https://github.com/clockfort/GitHub-Backup" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/clockfort/GitHub-Backup</a>
Browsing through the status page makes me wonder how they manage to have issues like this so frequently. Are there publicly available post-mortems for previous incidents? From a first glance I can't find any on the status page.<p>Having an electronics engineering background, my personal pet theory is that the convoluted layers upon layers of automagic container management, load balancing and scaling mechanisms act like nested control loops in respect to each other and sudden load increases (e.g. Monday morning load spike) cause the system to essentially produce a step response and it starts overshooting/oscillating. Just a thought tough.
It feels like this is happening a lot more(since quarantine) . It's really weird for how big this company is, how important, and have microsoft's backing. It is a little concerning given how much my work depends on its stability.
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It drives me insane that they don’t localize the times on their status page, is there a real reason they are displayed as UTC? If you are looking at a status page chances are anxiety is already high, to throw time zone conversion into the mix too is just obnoxious.
works for me... loaded this file no problem: <a href="https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings/blob/master/fatal-police-shootings-data.csv" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings/blob...</a>
First time I've ever seen it down, I guess there's a first for everything. Now I understand why many people are very paranoid when it comes to taking backups.<p>Is it worth backing up my GitHub repos somewhere else? What do other people use as an alternative source of truth for their code?