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roughly wrote: post #4

Hearts out to all the GitHub SREs who get to fix this, and all the SREs at GitHub’s customers who get to spend the next week convincing management and their peers that moving git in house won’t result in fewer outages.

It depends on your needs and team size. For few tens of dev that need a versioning system with some sugar, a self hosted gitlab can acieve better uptime.

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by rvz » Thu, May 04, 2023, 4:25 PM UTC

Last time GitHub went down was less than a month ago: [0]

At this point maybe it is time to self-host rather than to continue to tolerate this since it's guaranteed to goes down every month. [1]

Even open-source projects like RedoxOS, GNOME, KDE, ReactOS, etc are doing just fine without worrying about GitHub's unreliability as predicted years ago on not centralizing everything to GitHub. [2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35611739

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35611862

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by WookieRushing » Thu, May 04, 2023, 4:26 PM UTC

gondaloof wrote: post #6

Everything is down. How can this happen? Many of these services are unrelated, like even the brand-new Codespaces and Copilot are completely down. Do they all have a single point of failure? (Presumably the git server)

My bet is on cache servers having a bad release

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 04, 2023, 4:28 PM UTC

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Re: GitHub is down

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Post by dmonitor » Thu, May 04, 2023, 4:30 PM UTC

slg wrote: post #30

no_wizard wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always wondered if some % of GitHub orgs move to Gitlab when this happens. I'd be interested to see if there is any correlation there.

Yeah, because Gitlab would never go down. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=gitlab+down

Gitlab can be self hosted

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by jallen_dot_dev » Thu, May 04, 2023, 4:31 PM UTC

zackkitzmiller wrote: post #17

gondaloof wrote: post #6

Everything is down. How can this happen? Many of these services are unrelated, like even the brand-new Codespaces and Copilot are completely down. Do they all have a single point of failure? (Presumably the git server)

DNS. It's always DNS

It's not DNS
There's no way it's DNS

It was DNS

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by choeger » Thu, May 04, 2023, 4:31 PM UTC

andrewfromx wrote: post #10

roughly wrote: post #4

Hearts out to all the GitHub SREs who get to fix this, and all the SREs at GitHub’s customers who get to spend the next week convincing management and their peers that moving git in house won’t result in fewer outages.

so true. At this moment everyone's like, well! This is UNACCEPTABLE. We'll just, we'll just... what, what are you going to do better than github?

>what are you going to do better than github?

Not add new features every week? Seriously, you cannot tell me that you cannot run a minimal version of a git repo service much more stable than that. I blame the need for new shiny stuff.