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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by jdelsman »

Woofles wrote: post #24

Seems like they're saying it's maintenance now? $ gl fatal: remote error: GitHub is offline for maintenance. See http://status.github.com for more info.

That is likely just their standard downtime message.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by Robin_H »

H1Supreme wrote: post #17
anonu wrote: post #10

What do people do to get around this? Run my own git server like the good 'ol days? Github has become a central source of failure for us now...

Gitlab?

Does anyone know an alternative to githost.io? We don't want to use gitlab.org as it's painfully slow but also don't want to manage our own gitlab instance.

edit: We don't like the recent changes made in githost. ( Replaced the $35 option with $149 ) We're a team of 15 people.

edit2: should have clarified; I'm hooked to GitLab, just looking for another service that does managed hosting. Not looking for GitLab alternatives.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by jonaf »

anonu wrote: post #10

What do people do to get around this? Run my own git server like the good 'ol days? Github has become a central source of failure for us now...

Your question seems to indicate that you have a runtime dependency on github. If true, this is a problem no matter where your git repo resides. You need to architect a solution wherein you do not have a runtime dependency, especially if it is a single point of failure, or accept that your reliability will never be better than the sum of your services' reli abilities (there was an article on the "calculus of availability" or something like that recently).

What I personally do in AWS is bake my artifacts or other git-sourced data into AMI's. If you want a middle ground, you can instead push your artifacts to an s3 target -- s3 has better reliability / track record than github for this purpose.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by ben174 »

acchow wrote: post #31

if only we had a decentralized version control system...

Exactly this. It's painful to realize that Git was invented to solve this very problem, but so many use GitHub as their source control server just like CVS and all the other old source control systems.
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