They say everything is operating normally but my latest commits are still missing. Have they lost data?
GitHub was down
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Re: GitHub was down
#62Earlier 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).
Even for a company much larger than tiny, you're better off with GitHub from a reliability perspective. Most medium companies (up to hundreds of employees) do not have operations staff anywhere near as responsive as GitHub's are.
Look at their status history. The vast majority of companies could not boast such a record for their internal operations.
Re: GitHub was down
#63How it's possible in the modern world with all software development practices that project as github.com can be down for more than 10 minutes?
It's pretty amazing it wasn't down for more than 30 minutes.
Re: GitHub was down
#64Re: GitHub was down
#65It's already up, but my github latest feed is 15 days ago
Re: GitHub was down
#66We just started using Gerrit, but using Github authentication. Can't sign in! Not doing our own account management appears to have been a poor decision.
Why not using google for authentication?
Seems like github is down relatively often.
Re: GitHub was down
#67Github downtime is pizzabreak time
Re: GitHub was down
#68Are there companies out there that include Github as a critical part of their infrastructure such that if the web front end or GIT hosting goes down that their production servers are affected?
I'm sure there are but how many people would actually have been affected by this specific outage which only seemed to affect the web front end?
Re: GitHub was down
#69We just started using Gerrit, but using Github authentication. Can't sign in! Not doing our own account management appears to have been a poor decision.
This isn't an argument against third-party account management. It's an argument against single points of failure.
You can (and many websites which do) support multiple auth providers such as Facebook, Twitter, GitHub etc. If you bind your account to multiple of these providers, you can mitigate this risk to a large extent.