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Github is down
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#22This 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)?
a load of solar powered raspberry-pis with wi-fi posted to suitable locations around the world
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#23This 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...
Props to you for actually testing simultaneous pushes where conflicts arise at the Dropbox-level, but I would still never do this (for a multiuser repo, for a single user it's probably fine).
Maybe I'm overly risk-averse, but I've been bitten a few times by Git setups that are non-standard or complicated and decided that it's far better to keep things as simple as possible. I'm not really interested in fiddling about keeping Git running smoothly, when it's incidental to the real work. It's just not worth it to save a few bucks, versus hosting a Git repo yourself on a VPS or something.
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#25Looks 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.
Google has a little known service that does DDoS mitigation for you (amongst other things) called PageSpeed service[1], which is (currently) free[2]. They also do various optimisations for your site, and support things like caching, SPDY and IPv6.
(disclaimer: I'm a google employee, but not on the page speed service).
[1] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service/faq#mo...
[2] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/service/pricin...
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Props to you for actually testing simultaneous pushes where conflicts arise at the Dropbox-level, but I would still never do this (for a multiuser repo, for a single user it's probably fine). Maybe I'm overly risk-averse, but I've been bitten a few times by Git setups that are non-standard or complicated and decided that it's far better to keep things as simple as possible. I'm not really interested in fiddling about…
I run a gitolite server and git-on-dropbox setup both multi user. I find the maintenance of ssh keys a pain. I collaberate with 4 universities outside my country, and people upgrade their computers and lose their keys all the time. If its a smallish, ad hoc, non-security concious project, I go Dropbox by default now.
Its not bitten me yet (1 year, maybe 10 projects)