Can't wait for the article about this outage, what will it be? - Auto-scaling issue - DDOS - DNS error - Datacenter outage Any other possible problems?
- Kubernetes control plane screw-up
GitHub was down
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Re: GitHub was down
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can self-host GitHub too. Or BitBucket.
> Or BitBucket But why would anybody ever do that?
It's surprisingly easy to set up and run, even with redundancy, integrates well with Jira, Confluence. Was fast enough, stable enough, had everything one needed (offered more than a hosted solution such as github). IIRC kept git completely separate, so it worked even during updates or restarts.
Disclaimer: I passionately hate Atlassian products, but I don't feel like using Stash/Bitbucket is a bad choice in any way.
Re: GitHub was down
#103I still don't understand people who always mentions to Microsoft's acquisition. Until the official statement, it isn't Microsoft failure. Don't blame them.
I think you're right in that blaming Microsoft without any evidence is probably a mistake, but I also think "until the official statement, it isn't Microsoft failure" is putting a bit too much faith in corporate PR as a source of truth.
Re: GitHub was down
#104Looks like they need some high level analysis on why these outages happen so often. At this point it feels like it’s no longer a series of accidents and that they should improve something.
after this downtime today. We're finally start discussing (again) to use our own Gitlab.
We use Bitbucket on premises. It actually works great. Zero issues for the last 5 years including upgrading from one version to another.
Re: GitHub was down
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Self hosting GitHub is an option as well. We've been self hosting GitHub Enterprise for years and it has had no downtime other than during scheduled updates (at night, when nobody's at work).
> We've been self hosting GitHub Enterprise for years and it has had no downtime other than during scheduled updates (at night, when nobody's at work). Is it free to self host like GitLab or Gitea? If not, what does it offer that you can't get from those?
On-premise or own-cloud hosting is quite import for some customers.
Re: GitHub was down
#106I am thinking when was the last time GitLab went down, I rarely or did not see downtime experience like this bad with Gitlab, I was seeing history, https://status.gitlab.com/pages/history/ They do have some latency or slowness issues, but couldn't find like whole system down thing, Like in one of the comments here, reminded me of 2017 incident, https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-datab... They shou…
The correct link for history (at of now) should be:
https://status.gitlab.com/pages/history/5b36dc6502d06804c083...
Above link result in err 500.
Re: GitHub was down
#10714 Days ago, they went down [0]. And today it's happening again. Twice in less than a month. Another reminder to self host via solutions like GitLab or Gitea. [1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23675864 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676072
Could you provide details on how you plan to be more reliable with a self-hosted solution? what kind of archtecture would you use? how many people will be involved in maintaining?
If you just need the standard git functions, you just need an low-end linux machine with ssh server to "self host git"
Re: GitHub was down
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's just your own feelings. I haven't had any issue with Microsoft products (and yes I use their services every day in my working life). All I can see from you is making a guess with your full of sentiments and negative thoughts. So as I said, don't blame them until official statement.
> It's just your own feelings. Nope. Github is down, I don't feel it is down, it is down. Office 365 falls apart when two people try edit a spreadsheet at once. Outlook does not allow you to unreject a meeting invite. Windows won't report DLL errors over a powershell terminal, Azure takes 10 minutes to delete a VM instance, Azure DevOps is so poorly designed that nobody can figure out how to find a repo without someo…
You seem to have problems with online stuff. I don't use cloud and have no such problems.
Re: GitHub was down
#109I still don't understand people who always mentions to Microsoft's acquisition. Until the official statement, it isn't Microsoft failure. Don't blame them.
Blaming without context or proof, outrage culture and assaulting people who were not convicted of anything yet is the Internet's primary sport.
Re: GitHub was down
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would choose self-hosting for small to medium size teams any day. I can't fathom why people choose not to self-host at this scale. Your data. Your control. Your network. Your infrastructure. Your responsibility. Are people becoming more afraid of responsibility these days?
> Are people becoming more afraid of responsibility these days? I wound't say people become more afraid, they just don't see the reason to bother. I'd choose GitHub or Gitlab for small teams at any time. I'd probably even be fine with the free versions. I see little to no reason for self-hosting in a small team. I cannot imagine a performant server, bandwith and the employee it takes to maintain it to be cheaper than…
From zero servers to one requires an employee with the skills, but from 100 to 101 (my situation) does not. It requires less than 1% more employee, since more is likely to be automated etc.
Many small companies already have VMs running other services.