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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by esrauch »

2YwaZHXV wrote: post #101

given that it seems like the entire thing is busted, can anyone explain how the unicorn page is being served?

They probably have a reverse proxy in front of all their http endpoints and that is still up and able to show the unicorn if the backends aren't responsive.

The static content on the error page might also be on akami or cloudflare side.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by ergocoder »

fragmede wrote: post #118
ergocoder wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder why the status just doesn't ping github.com for 200. That seems easy to do.

from where? they don't only have one load balancer, so you'd still have the problem of the page showing green when it's not loading for some folk?

At Github's scale, why wouldn't they put a ping monitor from every continent at least?

Then, you would show the status based on the continent.

Re: GitHub was down

#177

Post by aarkay »

aarkay wrote: post #161
zachdoescode wrote: post #135

I swear even my VSCode intellisense is broken now... Rip to a real one.

yep very strange. You can disconnect from Wifi to get it to work. Vscode probably keeps pinging github/microsoft before every operation.

You can also disable telemetry and that seems to work too. Settings-> search for telemetry and select "off" from the telemetry dropdown.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by erksa »

The mobile app on iOS is a 503 with

```

Received a 503 error. Data returned as a String was: Hello future GitHubber! I bet you're here to remove those nasty inline styles, DRY up these templates and make 'em nice and re-usable, right?

Please, don't. https://github.co...

```

That's where it's cut off on my screen.

Curious what the link is :)

I like to think, someone did.

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