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Re: GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

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Post by shantanubala »

joeblau wrote: post #28

Does anyone know of a simple utility to host a remote on your local machine so that a small team can take advantage of git's DVCS in the event that a service like GitHub goes down?

Any local machine may be problematic (if you have a dynamic IP), but git is really easy to host on a VPS or any box with a static IP -- just make sure you have everyone's SSH keys authorized (not on root unless you trust everyone with that), and use the following:

    $ git remote add origin2 user@your-ip:/path/to/repo.git
To create repo.git:

    $ mkdir repo.git  
    $ cd repo.git  
    $ git --bare init

Re: GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

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Post by pavs »

tootie wrote: post #29
pavs wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And how will Bitbucket magically handle DDOS? Please do share. You are blaming Github for being attacked by DDOS?

Not OP, but my last project on github ran for about 6 months and had at least 3 outages on the order minutes or hours. Didn't shut down the project, but it was worrisome and I don't think they were DDoS attacks.

That I can understand. If the comment was on a thread about github outage that was not DDOS related.

Re: GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

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Post by daigoba66 »

I don't really understand why this is that big of a deal. Okay, I pay for github and they have downtime, that sucks. But git is designed to be distributed and your workflow can be partition tolerant. I honestly don't care if github goes down for a few hours; it doesn't stop anyone on my team from continuing to work. Now if they have days of downtime... that could be an issue and I would probably look to host repositories elsewhere.

Re: GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

#37

Post by zalew »

daigoba66 wrote: post #36

I don't really understand why this is that big of a deal. Okay, I pay for github and they have downtime, that sucks. But git is designed to be distributed and your workflow can be partition tolerant. I honestly don't care if github goes down for a few hours; it doesn't stop anyone on my team from continuing to work. Now if they have days of downtime... that could be an issue and I would probably look to host reposito…

> But git is designed to be distributed and your workflow can be partition tolerant.

but issues are not distributed, as an example.

Re: GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

#38

Post by sergiotapia »

tootie wrote: post #27
sergiotapia wrote: post #16

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there very little someone can do to mitigate a DDoS attack? Github just happens to be a very large target; BitBucket or alternatives are just as vulnerable.

The DDoS-proof solution is to put your repo on your own infrastructure.

I agree with you, I'm just refuting the claim that this is Github fault due to their own incompetence. What can Github realistically do except mitigate? What can _anyone_ do except mitigate?

Re: GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

#39

Post by runemadsen »

zalew wrote: post #37
daigoba66 wrote: post #36

I don't really understand why this is that big of a deal. Okay, I pay for github and they have downtime, that sucks. But git is designed to be distributed and your workflow can be partition tolerant. I honestly don't care if github goes down for a few hours; it doesn't stop anyone on my team from continuing to work. Now if they have days of downtime... that could be an issue and I would probably look to host reposito…

> But git is designed to be distributed and your workflow can be partition tolerant. but issues are not distributed, as an example.

They are.

$ git add . $ git commit -m 'fixing #23'

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