Random somewhat on-topic question. How does one measure ones technical capability to keep up services that are more available and dependent than third party solutions? I mean obviously starting out, almost everybody can benefit from doing a lot of stuff not in-house, but at some point you'd be able to do better yourselves. But then maybe for certain services from certain providers, raw technical capability never catches up?<p>How do you know when that point is? Is there even data out there on how frequently big providers go down? (Not just Github, but stuff like aws, etc)
Alright...well, it looks like this whole programming thing was a bust. Was good while it lasted, but yeah, uh, I guess I'm gonna go home, er, something - so...see you guys later?
Haha, I wonder how many of us came here because we couldn't push or pull commits, so just taking a HN reading break... and boom the top post is about Github!
It's amazing how often github actually goes down - 90% of the time they don't log it on their uptime / status page - it got so bad at one point I added it to our Nagios monitoring to prove a point to our devs that they shouldn't rely on external services for builds when our internal git(lab) server hasn't gone down once this year.
Exception percentage just got over 100%, new record! (?)
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Yep. All metrics down and exception rate is up gentlemen: <a href="http://imgur.com/Ncm5Rrx" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/Ncm5Rrx</a> . I just noticed when SQLMap install was hung and every tarball/zip download on their site also leads to Github , oy vey!
Could Github store mirrors of all repositories on some third-party service, like S3?<p>Even if they were only updated every 24 hours and had a limited history for each repo, it still seems like it would be a really useful fallback that they could put up when things like this happen.
Somehow I opened the GitHub Status Page subconsciously early this morning, then everything suddenly became 503 in less than 10 minutes!<p>I still have the tab opened now, saying "All systems operational"...
Why have they gone down so often in the past few months? Is this another DDOS?<p>I've personally wondered about their stack but I imagine that has little to do with that--mostly Ruby though right?
I hope it was just an error or something. Nothhing political, like this:<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/kyledrake/e6046644115f185f7af0" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/kyledrake/e6046644115f185f7af0</a><p>More info:<p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/policy/2014/5/9/5699510/web-hosting-company-puts-fcc-in-slow-lane" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/policy/2014/5/9/5699510/web-hosting-...</a>