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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by kornish » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:49 AM UTC

ztratar wrote: post #31

Probably a DDoS from a foreign actor.

What are the main motivations for foreign actors to DDoS GitHub?

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by hueving » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:49 AM UTC

antoineMoPa wrote: post #32

typpytyper wrote: post #16

Github was good while it lasted. Back to SourceForge.

Then if SF goes down we'll go back to emails & patches. Issues will be tracked with post-its & todo lists and communicated by voice.

I really wish we could get the community effects of github without github and have everyone self-hosting repos or even a fully distributed solution on top of something like IPFS.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by vishweshh » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:49 AM UTC

I guess its up

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by minton » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:51 AM UTC

Well that was scary. I pushed some changes and noticed the CI server didn't do anything and it reported no changes. So I checked the PR and sure enough it doesn't show any of my latest commits although git seems to think all is well.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by mcs_ » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:51 AM UTC

hueving wrote: post #50

mkagenius wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would one assume that their self-hosted git will never go down or will be up more than github?

At least when it's self-hosted, it's your responsibility and you can fix it. When you are anything larger than a tiny company, this is much less risky. Remember that 'the cloud' just means 'someone else's computers' so you are subject to their infrastructure management practices and uptime guarantees (or lack thereof).

Someone else you pay to keep data safe, up and running to do continuous integration in this particular case.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:52 AM UTC

cliftonc wrote: post #38

pandada8 wrote: post #30

https://status.github.com/messages/2016-07-21 by the way, why the status from July 15, 2016 to July 21, 2016 is red ?

It looks like they've lost a chunk of data - the last items in my news feed are from the 14th of July.

My activity is missing on my activity page, but the issue I just filed like an hour ago is there on my contributions page. I suspect that perhaps some of the feeds and lists have to repopulate, but nothing is really missing.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by sytse » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:54 AM UTC

isuckatcoding wrote: post #28

I've heard some good things about GitLab but seems like the majority of the OSS community is still on GitHub (...for now).

We're only more reliable when self hosting. GitLab.com is growing very fast and we have availability and speed problems. But I love the 'for now'. We're working to improve .com and we'll keep launching awesome features every month.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by typpytyper » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:54 AM UTC

typpytyper wrote: post #16

Github was good while it lasted. Back to SourceForge.

19 minutes and twelve pop-under ads later... I can't commit my changes until I punch the monkey and learn one weird trick to make my teeth whiter. Ah, the good old days.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by laksjd » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 5:54 AM UTC

kornish wrote: post #51

ztratar wrote: post #31

Probably a DDoS from a foreign actor.

What are the main motivations for foreign actors to DDoS GitHub?

There have in the past been some ddos attacks that were most likely by a foreign actor, but they were directed against individual repo's that contained material that the attacker wanted to suppress.

See http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/ddos-attacks-that-cr...