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Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by Melatonic »

roastedfunction wrote: post #54
sdetheridge wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to their status pages (e.g. https://eu.githubstatus.com/ , https://us.githubstatus.com/ ), their Enterprise Cloud uptime for Actions is significantly higher.

“GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency” is hosted on separate infrastructure and dedicated subdomains under *.ghe.com. It’s been around since November 2024z It’s not the same thing as GitHub Enterprise Cloud hosted on the shared global network on github.com. https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/dat...

So confusing and so Microsoft. They love to have licensing so complicated their own sales people aren't up to date and have to rely on third party spreadsheets.

Edit:

Read that document - why do more people not do the self hosted option with GitHub Enterprise Server ?

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by Melatonic »

saxonww wrote: post #32
john_strinlai wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

enterprise is mostly separate, is it not? uptimes are significantly more reasonable on the enterprise status pages

We are in GHEC right now and GitHub Actions is not working. It's been down every time githubstatus.com says it's down.

What country did you choose to host your data in ? Could be region based

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by stephenway »

thatwasunusual wrote: post #77

I have been very happy with github for _years_. Lately, not so much. Now I want to try a self-hosting alternative again. I tried gitlab years ago (pre-pandemic, IIRC), and it wasn't for me (they had _serious_ security issues as well, which of course didn't affect my self-hosting thing, but still...). So - where do we stand in August 2026? *EDIT:* No, I don't want anything related to Felon Musk.

[dead]

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by Melatonic »

frenchie4111 wrote: post #11

I noticed earlier this week that my URL bar now pre-fills githubstatus.com instead of github.com when I type "gith"

I notice I sometimes wake up before my alarm because I get an SMS about GitHub being down.

It could be a new Microsoft feature !

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by mportela »

thinkingtoilet wrote: post #71
tomw1808 wrote: post #36

Things can go wrong, but really, its been a lot and we're normalizing that to an unhealthy degree... I wonder if it was down that much, if users would get credits the way we pay when we use the services - its kind of ridiculous for a critical service to be down that much and all we do is "ah okay, its just github". Like, as if that was normal to be down that much...

I don't think it's been "normalized". Github uptime is literally a joke in the tech community. They have first mover advantage and a behemoth behind them so they're not going away, but everyone knows how shit it's uptime is. It takes time for organizations to move away from services like this but I would bet anything that many are starting to try to move away, as well as new companies knowing they shouldn't use the s…

I agree. I think it is the kind of situation that goes “gradually and then suddenly”, to quote Hemingway.

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by tom1337 »

frenchie4111 wrote: post #11

I noticed earlier this week that my URL bar now pre-fills githubstatus.com instead of github.com when I type "gith"

i noticed it today as well - typing "g" is enough to go to the statuspage. and surprisingly often when i go there by accident, they have an incident…

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by dijksterhuis »

hosh wrote: post #104
vinnymac wrote: post #78

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If you're actively considering self hosting, I recommend giving forgejo a try. The experience is much more similar to what GitHub offers, actions API is nearly identical to name one similarity of which there are many. Moving essentially becomes one prompt and a coffee later for a small team.

If people are happy with Actions API, that sounds great. I’m not happy with the Actions API. I think Gitlab’s cicd design is much better, and I’m not fighting it all the time when I use it.

i'll echo this sentiment. historically there's been a lot more flexibility with GL CI yaml syntax, including real yaml anchors https://frenck.dev/github-actions-yaml-anchors-aliases-merge...

sys-admin-ing gitlab can be a bit of a maze of web menus tho.

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by jmb99 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #106
ncr100 wrote: post #72

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A browser extension to indicate githubstatus being yellow/red: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/is-github-down/lcfo... A VSCode extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RuslanRy... Firefox: https://github.com/matagus/github-status-checker Caveat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450924 (disclaimer: none of these are recommended by me to use - merely sharing to build on for this dis…

Another useful disclaimer: all of these lets the developers push updates to your computer as they wish by default in most setups, these days you might want to decrease that kind of attack surface and just check the status in the official website when "git push" suddenly stop working. Especially when extensions and stuff sometimes changes hand and it's kind of hard to keep track of it, except for when something bad ha…

Well, the alternatives are:

> It would be really cool if someone built an extension to show GitHub status live

"These already exist, why wouldn't you search before posting?"

> There exist quite a few extensions to show live GitHub status

"Why would you not post them if you know they exist?"

Or, what actually happened:

> Here are some extensions that might work for you to show live GitHub status

"Why would you recommend extensions to do this?"

Seems to me like, if your goal is to pick apart someone suggesting something, you'll find a way to.

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by roncesvalles »

pydry wrote: post #98
guhcampos wrote: post #76

Honestly? If the problem is scalability, just rate limit git commands on free accounts already. Nobody realistically need to push multiple times per minute, and that alone is bound to trickle down to anything that triggers on commits and pushes.

realistically the problem is vibe coding.

The problem is when you stuff your codebase with so much unreviewed vibecoded slop that engineers lose their grasp on how it all works.
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