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Re: Github.com is down

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Post by cpfohl » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 12:35 PM UTC

boothead wrote: post #17

jakub_g wrote: post #7

https://status.github.com/messages is a better place to keep up with news like that.

My intuition would be that status.service.com is not a useful place to look if service.com is down... edit that's not supposed to be as snarkey as it sounds reading it back :-) edit again The reason for this intuition is that I assume that not being able to reach service.com could indicate a DNS problem. Possibly from the comments below I need to go and read a DNS book :-)

Most services run their `status` service on a different server entirely. It's the only possible way it could ever make sense.

Re: Github.com is down

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Post by shocks » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 12:36 PM UTC

A nice reminder not to put all your eggs in one basket.

Re: Github.com is down

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Post by harrytuttle » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 12:36 PM UTC

sspiff wrote: post #16

harrytuttle wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because tragically, most people have all their eggs in one github shaped basket. Git on it's own doesn't suffer from the issue of scary downtime (occasionally repo corruption...), but people have bought deeply into the value-added ecosystem that github throws over the top of it. It's a show-stopper for them.

I have some of my code on GitHub and some on Bitbucket (for the free private repos), all of my code on my Dropbox and it's synced to 4 different machines. However, the library I'm working with is hosted on GitHub, their doxygen is on GitHub, their wiki is on GitHub, and I don't have a local version of either of those, which is now pretty annoying.

Very true. This is a major irritation. I rather like Golang because of stuff like this as you can run your own local documentation server and stuff. It's just a neat self-contained package.

Re: Github.com is down

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Post by cliveowen » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 12:36 PM UTC

Why this kind of links get always promoted? What's the point? Genuine question.

Re: Github.com is down

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Post by jamesroseman » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 12:36 PM UTC

boothead wrote: post #17

jakub_g wrote: post #7

https://status.github.com/messages is a better place to keep up with news like that.

My intuition would be that status.service.com is not a useful place to look if service.com is down... edit that's not supposed to be as snarkey as it sounds reading it back :-) edit again The reason for this intuition is that I assume that not being able to reach service.com could indicate a DNS problem. Possibly from the comments below I need to go and read a DNS book :-)

Actually, I've always checked status.service to see if Github is up, it must be hosted on a separate server.

Re: Github.com is down

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Post by shocks » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 12:36 PM UTC

negrit wrote: post #2

How is this an interesting news ? Because my comment isn't clear. This is not an interesting news. A link to the twitter status or the github status ( https://status.github.com/messages ) would be relevant in that case. not just some link to a third party telling us it's down. Yeah thank you. I could have notice it on my own....

It's a nice reminder not to put all your eggs in one basket.

Re: Github.com is down

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 12:37 PM UTC

boothead wrote: post #17

jakub_g wrote: post #7

https://status.github.com/messages is a better place to keep up with news like that.

My intuition would be that status.service.com is not a useful place to look if service.com is down... edit that's not supposed to be as snarkey as it sounds reading it back :-) edit again The reason for this intuition is that I assume that not being able to reach service.com could indicate a DNS problem. Possibly from the comments below I need to go and read a DNS book :-)