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Google search is basically never down. AWS is basically never down. WhatsApp is basically never down. Time for GitHub to grow up?
RO system is generally probably easier to keep up than a RW system that is constantly innovating.
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Seems better done than a lot of status pages, runs on separate infra, updated, has a way to subscribe, etc. However, saying "degraded performance" when you know it's "down for everyone" is an industry phrasing thing that's irritating. AWS also has "elevated response times" when everyone is seeing 5xx errors, or infinite response times.
It's not down for everyone. I can browse just fine, but my pushes get rejected, so that qualifies as "degraded performance" for me.
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I'm sure your scale is similar.
Google search is basically never down. AWS is basically never down. WhatsApp is basically never down. Time for GitHub to grow up?
The complexity difference between the Google search "app" (not counting the vast indexing infrastructure) and GitHub is also vastly different.
> AWS is basically never down.
Lol what? Have you used AWS?
> WhatsApp is basically never down.
Makes sense, Whatsapp always had a huge focus on reliable infrastructure, since day 0. Pays off I guess :)
Yup. Tried pushing and got "remote: fatal error in commit_refs". Was trying to understand what I was doing wrong.
Same here haha. StackOverflow informed me that it means GitHub is down, and indeed it was. I have to wonder if Git could somehow report this better. I guess it depends on exactly how GitHub is down, but "fatal error in commit_refs" made me worry that my local repo was somehow hosed.
Why GitHub is down so often? Why is it not possible to keep it up 100% of time (without counting physical failure)?. I haven't seen any down time for my system (it has hundreds of thousands of users online) in months since I have completed the setup.
It is so frequent and unreliable, you just might as well self-host at this point. You would likely have better up time than GitHub over the past three years since this prediction. [0]
HN should really have a “Down HN” category, as this is the most reliable place to get this information.
Everytime something has degraded performance or is down for me: 1. check my internet connection 2. check HN 3. check official statuspage
that said, HN is also down a lot lately, but that the kind of outage that makes more more productive actually!