The timing is pretty uncanny. I just deployed a github page and had a DNS issue because I configured it wrong. I hit "check again" and github went down. Hope I don't appear in the incident report.
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Re: GitHub was down
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I wonder why the status just doesn't ping github.com for 200. That seems easy to do.
delaying SLA
This is at least a multi-million dollar payout (if they admit to it).
All GitHub Pages say
> We're having a really bad day.
> The Unicorns have taken over. We're doing our best to get them under control and get GitHub back up and running.
Re: GitHub was down
#33I see more and more people use less Github, but some other git solutions.
I am afraid to think what to do when GitHub is down for hours (need to learn maillists?).
Another reason is that MS may be in phase when it will ask to pay for using GitHub just for reads (rate limiter).
Re: GitHub was down
#34I wonder how much it would've taken to keep github running without Microsoft buying them and running them into the ground like this.
I wonder if MS long term plans to have both GH and Azure DevOps (the source code management part) ...
Re: GitHub was down
#35I wonder how much it would've taken to keep github running without Microsoft buying them and running them into the ground like this.
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Re: GitHub was down
#36I've never seen an outage this big. Even the homepage doesn't load. We've had recurrent issues with Actions not running, but this seems a lot bigger. The status page says all is well, though: https://www.githubstatus.com/ . Hilarious.
I get the angry unicorn page "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists. Contact Support — GitHub Status — @githubstatus" with that last link going to https://x.com/githubstatus showing "GitHub Status Oct 22, 2018 Everything operating normally."
Re: GitHub was down
#37Down in Australia as well
Re: GitHub was down
#38RIP to all those who host their websites on GitHub pages :(
Re: GitHub was down
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It is kinda amazing how consistently status pages show everything fine during a total outage. It's not that hard to connect a status page to end-to-end monitoring statistics...
There is always going to be SOME delay between the outage and the status page, although 5 minutes is probably enough time where it should be updated
after several minutes the status page is still showing all is fine.
For a service like GH, anything more than 30 secs is unacceptable
Re: GitHub was down
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It is kinda amazing how consistently status pages show everything fine during a total outage. It's not that hard to connect a status page to end-to-end monitoring statistics...
It's simply too soon for the status page to report the anomaly, is my guess. It's been down for 4 minutes.
4 minutes is a long time for something that could have been an automated check.
For the record, the status page eventually got updated - around 7 minutes after this submission was created.