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I think my biggest nightmare is SO, GH, and HN all being down at the same time. Edit: A nightmare is an exaggeration. But it would slow down work.
Reddit and Rocket League servers were degraded simultaneously yesterday, and if I recall correctly they both host on Google Cloud (I may be mistaken there). My paranoia of a high impact state-sponsored cyber attack have been high!
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Github is as much or more a collaboration tool as a Git upstream. The Git part is easy to distribute. The collaboration tool, not so much. And to anticipate the likely next argument - no, mailing lists are not a better tool for collaboration. They are distributed, sure. In so saying, I have exhausted the list of their virtues.
The "we deploy production directly from Github" pathology is the one I'm talking about. Not being able to "collaborate" for a brief outage is fine. Not being able to deploy code isn't.
But it might be worth keeping in mind that there are plenty of businesses that can afford afford delays, especially if they can save money in exchange for that higher risk.
As always, engineering isn't about the perfect solution for everybody, but the right tradeoffs for your particular use case.
I don't think it's just GitHub. I noticed everything seemed slow but thought it was just my ISP. Turns out from looking at downdetector.com there seems to be a large spike in reported problems across many sites and providers, all occurring at the same time.
Not entirely sure what’s up, but this doesn’t thing like an issue limited to only GitHub.
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If you're looking for somewhere else, SourceHut has had no unplanned outages in 2020, despite being kept online by an army of one. The software and infrastructure is just more resilient and better maintained. Our ops guide is available here: https://man.sr.ht/ops/ It's also the highest performance software forge by objective measures: https://forgeperf.org/ Full disclosure: I am the founder of SourceHut.
your $2/month pricing. Is it $2/person/month?
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If you're looking for somewhere else, SourceHut has had no unplanned outages in 2020, despite being kept online by an army of one. The software and infrastructure is just more resilient and better maintained. Our ops guide is available here: https://man.sr.ht/ops/ It's also the highest performance software forge by objective measures: https://forgeperf.org/ Full disclosure: I am the founder of SourceHut.
It's unfair to Github to make the claim that your infra is more resilient and better maintained. Their load is orders of magnitude greater than yours. My driveway also doesn't have potholes it doesn't mean it's more resilient than the freeway.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22936448
SourceHut is at least 10x lighter weight and has a distributed, fault tolerant design which would allow you to continue being productive even in the event of a total outage of all SourceHut services.
https://www.jetbrains.com/space/
Anybody else got experience with that and/or TeamCity?
Is it just me, or has Github's quality of service been continually degrading over the past several months? What is going on internally? Is this because of the Microsoft acquisition? Increased usage? An internal transition to Azure? ...is it time to move away from Github?
If you're looking for somewhere else, SourceHut has had no unplanned outages in 2020, despite being kept online by an army of one. The software and infrastructure is just more resilient and better maintained. Our ops guide is available here: https://man.sr.ht/ops/ It's also the highest performance software forge by objective measures: https://forgeperf.org/ Full disclosure: I am the founder of SourceHut.
Maybe this is somewhere in the manual and I missed it, but do you have some way of automating the configuration of your hosts and VMs? For example, do you use something like Ansible?
At my organization, we saw an uptick in timeouts spanning vendors that started at the same time - 6:55am PST. Makes me think there's an internet wide event occurring right now