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Re: GitHub is down

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Post by joshmanders »

rvz wrote: post #35

Last time GitHub went down was less than a month ago: [0] At this point maybe it is time to self-host rather than to continue to tolerate this since it's guaranteed to goes down every month. [1] Even open-source projects like RedoxOS, GNOME, KDE, ReactOS, etc are doing just fine without worrying about GitHub's unreliability as predicted years ago on not centralizing everything to GitHub. [2] [0] https://news.ycombina…

> At this point maybe it is time to self-host rather than to continue to tolerate this since it's guaranteed to goes down every month.

Not a single one of these outages has caused me enough pain to even consider moving to another hosted provider let alone self-hosting and the burden that goes into managing all that stuff.

Can we stop with this whole "omg a major platform that gets used by millions of people a day can't guarantee 100% uptime, we need to all manage our own infra!!" mentality?

Seriously I've been in GitHub all morning and decided to take a break and read HN and I was JUST learning about this now... It was resolved before I seen this thread too.

Re: GitHub is down

#42

Post by dom96 »

The fact that GitHub being down can have such an impact means that Git’s decentralised features don’t go far enough. Why aren’t issues, PRs and all these other little things we depend on also stored in a git repo? Or something similar that can withstand GitHub being down.

I set aside time today to go through my notifications and I can’t because of this. Notifications are trickier to decentralise but still, ugh.

Re: GitHub is down

#43

Post by tcoff91 »

dom96 wrote: post #42

The fact that GitHub being down can have such an impact means that Git’s decentralised features don’t go far enough. Why aren’t issues, PRs and all these other little things we depend on also stored in a git repo? Or something similar that can withstand GitHub being down. I set aside time today to go through my notifications and I can’t because of this. Notifications are trickier to decentralise but still, ugh.

Those who use it by emailing patches around aren't affected, ala the linux kernel.

Re: GitHub is down

#44

Post by bogantech »

roughly wrote: post #4

Hearts out to all the GitHub SREs who get to fix this, and all the SREs at GitHub’s customers who get to spend the next week convincing management and their peers that moving git in house won’t result in fewer outages.

Our on-prem GH enterprise hasn't gone down in the last year.

Additionally any potentially disruptive work like upgrades etc can be scheduled outside of business hours so that they won't impact users

Re: GitHub is down

#45

Post by paulddraper »

vb-8448 wrote: post #34
roughly wrote: post #4

Hearts out to all the GitHub SREs who get to fix this, and all the SREs at GitHub’s customers who get to spend the next week convincing management and their peers that moving git in house won’t result in fewer outages.

It depends on your needs and team size. For few tens of dev that need a versioning system with some sugar, a self hosted gitlab can acieve better uptime.

> a self hosted gitlab can acieve better uptime.

Gonna call BS on that.

It can achieve better uptime, if you ignore the downtime for upgrades, the downtime for configuration errors, the downtime when the disk fills up...

Re: GitHub is down

#47

Post by paulddraper »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #8
openthc wrote: post #2

Mine looks like (on git push): remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (4/4), completed with 4 local objects. remote: fatal error in commit_refs To $REPO ! [remote rejected] main -> main (failure) error: failed to push some refs to '$REPO' Status Page: https://www.githubstatus.com/ -- actually shows red -- it was almost updated as fast as HN.

> Status Page: https://www.githubstatus.com/ -- actually shows red -- it was almost updated as fast as HN. I think we should applaud this when it actually happens. Far too many services are terrible for this. While I'd rather the service not be down, it makes me feel a bit better if they don't lie about it.

In a world of green, an accurate status page is a radical act.

Re: GitHub is down

#49

Post by joshmanders »

choeger wrote: post #40
andrewfromx wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so true. At this moment everyone's like, well! This is UNACCEPTABLE. We'll just, we'll just... what, what are you going to do better than github?

>what are you going to do better than github? Not add new features every week? Seriously, you cannot tell me that you cannot run a minimal version of a git repo service much more stable than that. I blame the need for new shiny stuff.

> I blame the need for new shiny stuff.

Ya'll make me laugh. Don't add any features and "This thing is dead, nothing new in years, find an alternative" But a company actively adds new features their customers are asking for and you're upset that they're adding new features.

Pick a lane.

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