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Re: GitHub was down

#31

Post by __s » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:52 PM UTC

In the face of a lack of information, HN comments begin to throw around unfounded speculation & tongue-in-cheek jokes run rampant. I suppose that in the absence of information, many stay silent, & the remaining see a thread lacking comments

& now we've got this meta one in the mix

Re: GitHub was down

#32

Post by indubitably » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:52 PM UTC

slap_shot wrote: post #6

Status now shows Major Service Outage: 12:32 EDTMajor service outage. https://status.github.com/

unicorns all around

Re: GitHub was down

#33

Post by mschuster91 » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:52 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #23

peterwwillis wrote: post #17

Dang. It's too bad their customers' source control files aren't distributed and decentralized, or they could keep working and ignore this.

The problem is not the files, it's the project management stuff (issues and PR tracking). That is a SPOF. If they could decentralize that, then nobody would care if they are down half the time.

I wonder why you can't export them as a read-only git repository. (Read-only to avoid people messing around with the history)

Re: GitHub was down

#34

Post by thepumpkin1979 » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:54 PM UTC

ibgib wrote: post #22

Are there any other major sites that are down?

All software depending on Github repo releases downloads are down, e.g: Rancher CLI.

Re: GitHub was down

#35

Post by Ace17 » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:55 PM UTC

tevonsb wrote: post #7

Thoughts on the cause?

Ludum Dare? :-)

Re: GitHub was down

#36

Post by westbywest » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:56 PM UTC

luhn wrote: post #10

Pages Builds Failure Rate spiked to over 2000%. I don't know how that's possible, but it seems pretty bad.

Guessing absolute failure rate previously not encountered by current graphing tool, incorrect scaling factor. Or, it was decided at some point that always reporting 0.000XXX% failure rate, even if correct, didn't offer an intuitive metric, so zeroes were intentionally truncated.

Re: GitHub was down

#37

Post by sashk » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:57 PM UTC

What was happening to Github for a week or so in late June - early July? I see "The status is still red at the beginning of the day" for a whole week.

https://status.github.com/messages/2017-07-03

Re: GitHub was down

#38

Post by emilsedgh » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 5:00 PM UTC

kaikai wrote: post #27

I would love to see a chart of traffic to other sites when GitHub goes down. My bet is that HackerNews and Twitter both get significant spikes from all those bored developers.

Its not like your editor is down.

Re: GitHub was down

#39

Post by dguaraglia » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 5:00 PM UTC

kmfrk wrote: post #26

I had to change a username from capitalized to uncapitalized and use my updated remote afterwards, apologies if I broke it for everyone.

Did you know that if you type "Google" in the Google search box you can break the internet? :|

(BTW, this was meant as a joke... although I'm not discarding that kmfrk broke Github just yet!)

Re: GitHub was down

#40

Post by dewiz » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 5:00 PM UTC

ProAm wrote: post #13

Githubs uptime is pretty bad. Isn't it under 95% for the year now?

https://status.github.com/graphs/past_month