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Re: GitHub was down

#11

Post by fagnerbrack » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:28 AM UTC

All the company stopped, yay!

Re: GitHub was down

#12

Post by qwyxzy » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:29 AM UTC

Swizec wrote: post #4

Obligatory "If only Git was a distributed system" snarky comment. But this is seriously not a good time. Using gh-pages, hard deadline tomorrow morning.

Might https://surge.sh help?

Re: GitHub was down

#13

Post by bdcravens » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:29 AM UTC

jclulow wrote: post #7

We just started using Gerrit, but using Github authentication. Can't sign in! Not doing our own account management appears to have been a poor decision.

Every time a service like Github goes down, I always swear to myself I'll replace that dependency with a project that takes days, weeks, or months to implement will ensure I'll never have hours or minutes of downtime ever again.

Re: GitHub was down

#14

Post by fagnerbrack » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:29 AM UTC

Time to procrastinate.

Re: GitHub was down

#15

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:30 AM UTC

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Re: GitHub was down

#16

Post by typpytyper » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:30 AM UTC

Github was good while it lasted. Back to SourceForge.

Re: GitHub was down

#17

Post by seletskiy » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:30 AM UTC

How it's possible in the modern world with all software development practices that project as github.com can be down for more than 10 minutes?

Re: GitHub was down

#18

Post by lobster_johnson » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:31 AM UTC

sriharis wrote: post #9

Strangely, pulling from and pushing to github works. Just that no page on their website loads.

The git hosting is fairly independent of the web site. It happens fairly frequently that one is down and the other isn't. The git hosting has a resilient distributed back end designed to maintain redundant replicas and be highly available. The web site is, I believe, a huge Rails app.

Re: GitHub was down

#19

Post by antoineMoPa » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:31 AM UTC

oceaniity wrote: post #10

antoineMoPa wrote: post #5

I had just posted a link to an issue in github and when I tried to click it to see if it worked, I was wondering if I did anything wrong. Github has so much activity that many people could be thinking the same right now. I also guess hundreds of persons are wondering if the commit they just pushed killed github's servers.

I did the same. I spent a solid minute trying different things and googling to figure out what was wrong. Checked the status page and bam! It's still down. :(

Now there is a human Denial of Service attack because everyone is refreshing their pages like theres no tomorrow.

Re: GitHub was down

#20

Post by wckronholm » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:32 AM UTC

antoineMoPa wrote: post #19

oceaniity wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did the same. I spent a solid minute trying different things and googling to figure out what was wrong. Checked the status page and bam! It's still down. :(

Now there is a human Denial of Service attack because everyone is refreshing their pages like theres no tomorrow.

All DOS are because of humans?