Github major service outage

I find it somewhat odd that, given git's emphasis on distributed version control, we see so many git users have centralized themselves quite heavily on GitHub.<p>Whenever GitHub runs into problems like this, it reminds me of when a team's CVS or Subversion servers used to go down. It could be a pretty disruptive occurrence, if it wasn't resolved quickly. While git can theoretically handle this better, in practice the use of GitHub, for instance, renders git just as susceptible.

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Least reliable service that I pay for by a long shot.

I didn't even know it was down haha. I've been pushing to a private GitHub repo all morning with no problems.

Database outage causing everything to go down?

The status page says that "Code Downloads" is "Normal". How do you get to the downloads page for a given repo? Is there some canonical form for a URL for repos? Maybe while they're fixing it we can still download code...

We mainly used github and one of their last updates, our entire repository turned to blank. Nada, no file, no wiki, nothing... We emailed support and tweeted their account. After one week, someone replied asking "is there problem still there?" I thought that was funny in term of how immature this company is. They eventually fixed it after like 2 weeks by restoring the backup database.<p>Anyways, Github is nice. Use it with caution. It cannot be full blown Enterprise ready grade service yet.

Looking through the past few months of messages on <a href="http://status.github.com/messages" rel="nofollow">http://status.github.com/messages</a>, I'm really quite surprised at how many service outages, major or minor, are reported. It seems something goes wrong more days than not.

A number of ticketing systems, like Unfuddle and Assembla, include free git repos. Personally I prefer Github, but if you're already using such a system, might as well utilize its git hosting (for a backup if nothing else)

Same for me from San Diego, CA. I am unable to push and unable to access the main page. Getting "This page is taking way too long to load."

im getting a 500 (from NYC) on the main page + i cant push to remote repos

It's back up for me.

Why Unicorn Why!