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Re: Github is down

#11
post #6

This has probably been asked in one of the hundreds "GitHub is down" posts in the last few months, but what are the alternatives (apart from bitbucket)?

git on dropbox? (what I use, it has the feature of syncing everyones origin automatically oppertunistically) http://edinburghhacklab.com/2012/11/easy-version-control-git...

Re: Github is down

#13
post #5

Looks like another DoS attack: "0:18 UTC GitHub.com is recovering at this time from a DoS attack. We're continuing to monitor things and will provide further updates as the situation develops." Is there really no way to protect from these attacks!?

There is a way. Have more bandwidth then your attacker. DDoS protection services exist that forward the good traffic on to you, and they do this by having excessively large amounts of bandwidth. They also cost obscene amounts of money.

Right, like CloudFlare's services. I remember reading the postmortems from that very large attack a few months back.

Surely GitHub must have the money to beef up their pipes, no? Or perhaps they're noticing that these outages aren't really hurting their bottom line, and thus it's not worth the investment...

Re: Github is down

#14
They seem to cheat with their "Mean Web Response Time". As you can see in the graph, at the time the App Server Availability is down to 0, the Response Time is also 0, where it should be ∞, or at least the timeout time. This would reflect the real mean response time, or am I wrong?

Edit: It was just one spike that went down to 0, directly after it there's a higher spike. (It didn't change the mean response time of 113ms, though)

Re: Github is down

#18
post #6

This has probably been asked in one of the hundreds "GitHub is down" posts in the last few months, but what are the alternatives (apart from bitbucket)?

I'm a fan of the rarely-mentioned http://repositoryhosting.com/ for the hosting. I don't know a good alternative for everything else GitHub does on top of git.

Re: Github is down

#19
post #6

This has probably been asked in one of the hundreds "GitHub is down" posts in the last few months, but what are the alternatives (apart from bitbucket)?

I think that some people use GitLab to host their own Github clones. It's debatable whether that's a viable alternative.

I used GitLab with a small team for a while and found it to be adequate. It never quite felt as good as GitHub and was missing a few trivial features (although I can't remember any right now) but overall it was a pretty good experience.

Re: Github is down

#20
post #6

This has probably been asked in one of the hundreds "GitHub is down" posts in the last few months, but what are the alternatives (apart from bitbucket)?

I think that some people use GitLab to host their own Github clones. It's debatable whether that's a viable alternative.

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