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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by lopis »

quyleanh wrote: post #30

I still don't understand people who always mentions to Microsoft's acquisition. Until the official statement, it isn't Microsoft failure. Don't blame them.

It's not MS fault, of course, but since MS acquired GH, GH has been much more relaxed. New features are added all the time, clearly not ready for the spotlight. It gives you a different comfort knowing your daddy is there as a safety net.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by m0xte »

navanchauhan wrote: post #32
_ikke_ wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had 2 sd-cards go corrupt (read-only, any writes were lost). Had a mariadb instance running on it as well. It will hold for for some time, but eventually, the card will give up.

Oh no! What will you recommend as a long term solution? I have ordered a Pi 4, should I use an USB Flash Drive / HDD / SATA SSD?

Honestly throw the thing in a bin and use an old mini pc instead. Lenovo thinkcentre tiny. You can pick them up on eBay for about the same as a fully equipped pi.

Pi is 100% not suitable for 100% duty work. It’s just a toy.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by thejosh »

rvz wrote: post #27

I said this before many times and I'll say it again, consider self-hosting your projects on a solution like GitLab or Gitea to avoid this sort of situation. [0] GNOME, Xfce, Redox, Wireguard, KDE and Haiku all have self-hosted on either cgit, Gitlab, Phabricator or Gitea. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676072

Sure, if you're a big project. But smaller ones I bet would have less downtime, require less ops, require thinking less about everything.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by thejosh »

jonny383 wrote: post #10
navanchauhan wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I might just self-host Gitea on my Pi today

I was going to warn you about SD card corruption, but then I realized even this is probably more reliable than GitHub at this point.

You can always just sync to multiple destinations like gitlab, bitbucket, github etc :).

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by m0xte »

nicc wrote: post #11

People are advocating hosting their own Git repos, but wouldn't those go down, too, and wreck the day even more? Or, are you guys all devops geniuses better than those who work at GitHub?

When I was running subversion we had no downtime in 6 years during office hours.

Really git is designed to be serverless and decentralised this centralised GitHub malarkey is probably wrong.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by hamandcheese »

sparkling wrote: post #36
rvz wrote: post #27

I said this before many times and I'll say it again, consider self-hosting your projects on a solution like GitLab or Gitea to avoid this sort of situation. [0] GNOME, Xfce, Redox, Wireguard, KDE and Haiku all have self-hosted on either cgit, Gitlab, Phabricator or Gitea. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676072

How about a more low-tech solution? I don't want/need a full-blown web application like Gitlab, just need somethings than auto-syncs my public and private repos so that i can still access everything when Github is down. Any ideas?

The lowest tech solution is to just wait until the outage is over. It’s 100% free!

Seriously, though, any repo that I work on regularly will be cloned to my local dev environment, so it’s not a hard blocker.

That said, a cron job on a cheap VPS would probably do the trick.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by gitgud »

rvz wrote: post #27

I said this before many times and I'll say it again, consider self-hosting your projects on a solution like GitLab or Gitea to avoid this sort of situation. [0] GNOME, Xfce, Redox, Wireguard, KDE and Haiku all have self-hosted on either cgit, Gitlab, Phabricator or Gitea. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676072

True, but the burden of maintenance and up-time is on yourself then...

Might be good to have a self hosted backup that's automatically synced with Github

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by remus »

sparkling wrote: post #36
rvz wrote: post #27

I said this before many times and I'll say it again, consider self-hosting your projects on a solution like GitLab or Gitea to avoid this sort of situation. [0] GNOME, Xfce, Redox, Wireguard, KDE and Haiku all have self-hosted on either cgit, Gitlab, Phabricator or Gitea. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676072

How about a more low-tech solution? I don't want/need a full-blown web application like Gitlab, just need somethings than auto-syncs my public and private repos so that i can still access everything when Github is down. Any ideas?

It's still a full full blown web app but I can highly recommend gitea. It's just a single binary so getting setup is really easy. I run an instance and it literally requires no maintenance.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by jopsen »

rvz wrote: post #27

I said this before many times and I'll say it again, consider self-hosting your projects on a solution like GitLab or Gitea to avoid this sort of situation. [0] GNOME, Xfce, Redox, Wireguard, KDE and Haiku all have self-hosted on either cgit, Gitlab, Phabricator or Gitea. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676072

Self-hosting is hard work, you easily forget security updates, or backups, and should your project get a lot of traffic your server might not handle it.

And should your project go unmaintained it'll probably disappear if you don't have managed hosting.

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