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Re: GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

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Post by microtonal »

zeckalpha wrote: post #10
joeblau wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but everything to do with their reputation. before 8 months ago, I never recommended Bitbucket to anyone. Now I do based on the knowledge that GitHub has a loss of connection at least once a month. The company I worked for used GitHub as the source for its build systems releases. If you can't do releases because GitHub is down a few times, I'm sure the dev/ops team will start looking elsewhere.

The enterprise version of GitHub might be a middle ground.

Or Atlassian's Stash, which is is also really affordable for small teams.

Re: GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

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Post by rfctr »

joeblau wrote: post #9
kotnik wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a DDoS attack. Nothing to do with their infrastructure.

Yeah, but everything to do with their reputation. before 8 months ago, I never recommended Bitbucket to anyone. Now I do based on the knowledge that GitHub has a loss of connection at least once a month. The company I worked for used GitHub as the source for its build systems releases. If you can't do releases because GitHub is down a few times, I'm sure the dev/ops team will start looking elsewhere.

Is there a good counter-measure against DDoS? I believe there is none. Commercial services help but only up to certain traffic level.

Tomorrow Bitbucket can get under the same attack.

Re: GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

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Post by jdminhbg »

maaaats wrote: post #8
munimkazia wrote: post #7

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It's a good thing git is a distributed system. In such cases, people can just switch to a different remote and push their branches there (with some care, of course).

But most people never use the distributed part of git, other than having the repo on their local computer.

Just being able to continue working and committing locally and pushing to Github when it comes back up is still a DVCS win over SVN. People may not use the distributed part of git to its fullest, but they do use it.

Re: GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

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Post by joeblau »

zeckalpha wrote: post #10
joeblau wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but everything to do with their reputation. before 8 months ago, I never recommended Bitbucket to anyone. Now I do based on the knowledge that GitHub has a loss of connection at least once a month. The company I worked for used GitHub as the source for its build systems releases. If you can't do releases because GitHub is down a few times, I'm sure the dev/ops team will start looking elsewhere.

The enterprise version of GitHub might be a middle ground.

Yeah, that is a great point. Our lead ops guy was pushing for just hosting a bare bone git repository inside the firewall and not even buying a commercial product. Our problem was that we didn't have enough servers for our product, let alone our code.

Re: GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

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Post by Diederich »

zeckalpha wrote: post #10
joeblau wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but everything to do with their reputation. before 8 months ago, I never recommended Bitbucket to anyone. Now I do based on the knowledge that GitHub has a loss of connection at least once a month. The company I worked for used GitHub as the source for its build systems releases. If you can't do releases because GitHub is down a few times, I'm sure the dev/ops team will start looking elsewhere.

The enterprise version of GitHub might be a middle ground.

GitHub enterprise has absolutely no dependencies on the mother ship, except for expiring license packs.

And, in my experience, they'll very freely give you 1-2 month temporary packs, even if you're late with the renewals. Very good customer service.

Re: GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

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Post by joeblau »

rfctr wrote: post #13
joeblau wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but everything to do with their reputation. before 8 months ago, I never recommended Bitbucket to anyone. Now I do based on the knowledge that GitHub has a loss of connection at least once a month. The company I worked for used GitHub as the source for its build systems releases. If you can't do releases because GitHub is down a few times, I'm sure the dev/ops team will start looking elsewhere.

Is there a good counter-measure against DDoS? I believe there is none. Commercial services help but only up to certain traffic level. Tomorrow Bitbucket can get under the same attack.

There are some good counter measures. CloudFlare, the CDN that I'm using for my site http://gitignore.io helps mitigate DDoS's [1]. Github also took a good step by separating the source code domain github.com from the pages domain github.io [2]. I agree that tomorrow Atlassian could suffer a DDoS attack but I feel like since they are a more mature company, they have a lot more experience dealing with that type of attack.

[1] - http://www.cloudflare.com/ddos

[2] - https://github.com/blog/1452-new-github-pages-domain-github-...

Re: GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

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Post by Thaxll »

rfctr wrote: post #13
joeblau wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but everything to do with their reputation. before 8 months ago, I never recommended Bitbucket to anyone. Now I do based on the knowledge that GitHub has a loss of connection at least once a month. The company I worked for used GitHub as the source for its build systems releases. If you can't do releases because GitHub is down a few times, I'm sure the dev/ops team will start looking elsewhere.

Is there a good counter-measure against DDoS? I believe there is none. Commercial services help but only up to certain traffic level. Tomorrow Bitbucket can get under the same attack.

anycast + lot of bandwidth are the best solution against DDoS.

Re: GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

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Post by pavs »

joeblau wrote: post #9
kotnik wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a DDoS attack. Nothing to do with their infrastructure.

Yeah, but everything to do with their reputation. before 8 months ago, I never recommended Bitbucket to anyone. Now I do based on the knowledge that GitHub has a loss of connection at least once a month. The company I worked for used GitHub as the source for its build systems releases. If you can't do releases because GitHub is down a few times, I'm sure the dev/ops team will start looking elsewhere.

And how will Bitbucket magically handle DDOS? Please do share.

You are blaming Github for being attacked by DDOS?

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