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Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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Guys, what's the purpose to attack a service like Github?!

China does not like some of the projects it hosts, namely the ones used to circumvent its Great Firewall.

That's a clear signal those projects have value and that we should work to make more like them.

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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post #35
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

github is not only git... how many times will we have to tell that? PRs, wikis, issues are the reasons why we use github...

If only it were possible to keep those things in git itself. Oh wait, it is.

Can you explain? How do you store issues in git?

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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I've always wondered why github hasn't considered switching to a distributed sub domain layout to help ameliorate this problem. Surely if they spread their infra out that would make ddos that much harder. A subdomain per user or repo should work wonderfully

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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I've always wondered why github hasn't considered switching to a distributed sub domain layout to help ameliorate this problem. Surely if they spread their infra out that would make ddos that much harder. A subdomain per user or repo should work wonderfully

Possibly for SEO reasons.

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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post #32
post #18

Totally speculation, but maybe related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10115641

Yeah my first reaction was it is government based and probably China. I know, we should keep building up their economy by manufacturing nearly everything there, that should stop them.

Over the long term, it will. An educated wealthy populace doesn't accept tyranny for long.

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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I've always wondered why github hasn't considered switching to a distributed sub domain layout to help ameliorate this problem. Surely if they spread their infra out that would make ddos that much harder. A subdomain per user or repo should work wonderfully

I don't think that will solve the problem.

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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post #13

All these ideas like "let's fetch our deps directly from github" sound good until github is not down.

Yeh it's definitely preferable to have one of the two developers your small startup can probably afford spending a good portion of their time rolling out, securing and maintaining your own infrastructure

GitHub is not meant for distributing dependencies. Maven Central on the other hand is, the difference being that it is mirrored and if repo1.maven.org goes down, it's not a big deal and your project can still be built and deployed.

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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post #35
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

github is not only git... how many times will we have to tell that? PRs, wikis, issues are the reasons why we use github...

If only it were possible to keep those things in git itself. Oh wait, it is.

One can create a fully offline version of github fork using https://github.com/joeyh/github-backup + https://gist.github.com/piscisaureus/3342247 ("Checkout github pull requests locally")

(PS: why cannot I reply to paulrouget's message?)

Re: GitHub had connectivity problems

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I've always wondered why github hasn't considered switching to a distributed sub domain layout to help ameliorate this problem. Surely if they spread their infra out that would make ddos that much harder. A subdomain per user or repo should work wonderfully

I don't think that will solve the problem.

Well if x% of repos remain up that goes a long way. Right now it's all or nothing.

Also if you're going to respond include a reason why you disagree

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