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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by mkagenius » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:44 AM UTC

isuckatcoding wrote: post #28

I've heard some good things about GitLab but seems like the majority of the OSS community is still on GitHub (...for now).

Why would one assume that their self-hosted git will never go down or will be up more than github?

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by antoineMoPa » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:44 AM UTC

wckronholm wrote: post #20

antoineMoPa wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

When used as an attack, the efficient method is to buy servers or to have a botnet to do it for you.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by rootlocus » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:45 AM UTC

isuckatcoding wrote: post #28

I've heard some good things about GitLab but seems like the majority of the OSS community is still on GitHub (...for now).

What makes you think GitLab won't have any downtimes?

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by wckronholm » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:46 AM UTC

ben_jones wrote: post #35

antoineMoPa wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then if SF goes down we'll go back to emails & patches. Issues will be tracked with post-its & todo lists and communicated by voice.

Young blood here. Can we go further?

There's only so far tin can and string will go.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by kornish » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:46 AM UTC

mkagenius wrote: post #41

isuckatcoding wrote: post #28

I've heard some good things about GitLab but seems like the majority of the OSS community is still on GitHub (...for now).

Why would one assume that their self-hosted git will never go down or will be up more than github?

(Almost certainly) less load, more control over the hardware it's running on.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by eyelidlessness » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:46 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by mcs_ » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:47 AM UTC

This is why you keep your code in a GitLab self hosted machine with 2 cheap disks in raid. Github should be used as mirror.

Re: GitHub was down

#48

Post by ben_jones » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:47 AM UTC

I would like to take this moment to remind everyone the new episode of Mr Robot is out.

Re: GitHub was down

#49

Post by pandada8 » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:47 AM UTC

cliftonc wrote: post #38

pandada8 wrote: post #30

https://status.github.com/messages/2016-07-21 by the way, why the status from July 15, 2016 to July 21, 2016 is red ?

It looks like they've lost a chunk of data - the last items in my news feed are from the 14th of July.

same here :(

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by hueving » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:47 AM UTC

mkagenius wrote: post #41

isuckatcoding wrote: post #28

I've heard some good things about GitLab but seems like the majority of the OSS community is still on GitHub (...for now).

Why would one assume that their self-hosted git will never go down or will be up more than github?

At least when it's self-hosted, it's your responsibility and you can fix it. When you are anything larger than a tiny company, this is much less risky.

Remember that 'the cloud' just means 'someone else's computers' so you are subject to their infrastructure management practices and uptime guarantees (or lack thereof).