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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by dtech »

aspectmin wrote: post #34

Is there historical data of Github Uptime/Downtime? CSV format or other? I'd love to do some analysis on how things were pre, vs post the acquisition (and trends in availability)

They have some self-reported data [1]. You could scrape that and transform it.

Eyeball analysis suggests it started in december 2019-february 2020, and rapidly went downhill starting april.

[1] https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=2

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by sergiotapia »

dt3ft wrote: post #33
rvz wrote: post #13

14 Days ago, they went down [0]. And today it's happening again. Twice in less than a month. Another reminder to self host via solutions like GitLab or Gitea. [1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23675864 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676072

I would choose self-hosting for small to medium size teams any day. I can't fathom why people choose not to self-host at this scale. Your data. Your control. Your network. Your infrastructure. Your responsibility. Are people becoming more afraid of responsibility these days?

it's literally a money sink for wishy-washy benefits if you're a small/medium sized team. It's why heroku became a billion dollar company, time+money is better spent elsewhere at the start.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by tannhaeuser »

k_ wrote: post #7
jaekash wrote: post #2

again ... well done microsoft. well done. I really don't get why people keep using it, gitlab seems objectively better to me.

I prefer gitlab too but github is where most projects are, and that plays a overwhelming huge role on deciding where devs (and so other projects too) will be.. :/ It could change, but would require a pretty huge fuck-up or a lot of time and many not-so-smal mistakes from github.

How come we first get the almighty git software for free, then the next thing happening is people flocking to "hosted" services that provide very little on top of git for the vast majority of projects (apart from the social networking effect of course, but that also means your project has tens or hundreds of issues and build status "failing"). Then people bitch about gh on HN in a consumerish "coke-vs-pepsi" manner. Have F/OSS devs no self-respect? If you're into F/OSS, why do you lead your peers into a github silo where clicks to the content you create with lots and lots of effort in your spare time only helps big data, and which is even blocking indie search engines?

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by kchoudhu »

kenhwang wrote: post #28
Illniyar wrote: post #15

Seems like things started to go down the drain somewhere around February 2020. https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/kr09ddfgbfsf?page=2 Wonder what was the trigger for the reliability hit - actions went GA on nov 2019, so it's something else (or possibly a combination of things)

COVID related work from home adjustments is my guess.

That is actually an extremely good guess, and I am ashamed I didn't think of it to begin with.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by aaomidi »

haik90 wrote: post #23
thih9 wrote: post #11

Looks like they need some high level analysis on why these outages happen so often. At this point it feels like it’s no longer a series of accidents and that they should improve something.

after this downtime today. We're finally start discussing (again) to use our own Gitlab.

I love when people suggest this and when someone asks okay who do we put in charge of having better availability than github no one has a good answer.
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