This happens every other week. Does it really need to be posted on Hacker News <i>every</i> time? If you happen to be using Github at the time of the outage, you're going to notice. If you don't happen to be using Github at that time then it doesn't affect you.<p>This doesn't qualify for the <i>news</i> part of Hacker News.
I wonder how many people who use Github as part of their deployment work flow are impacted by outages like this. I know git is distributed, but I can imagine people with scripts that default to pulling from a github.com origin having to scramble to reconfigure.
Can I ask here? Why do a lot of companies insist on keeping their code on GitHub?<p>It seems expensive and they have many service outages from DDoS attacks.<p>It seems like someone could set up their 10 different git servers for a fraction of the price and have greater up-time due to redundancy.<p>And securing your own isn't rocket science either...<p>What am I not seeing that is the big draw to github?