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Re: Github Is Down

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Post by moviuro »

rvz wrote: post #54

You know you could actually use a self-hosted GitLab for your team's projects. Which is why projects like Xfce [0], GNOME, etc are still up and running and don't suffer from this. Also if I were a school sys-admin I would self-host and use GitLab. [0] https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2020-April/032436....

Self-hosting simply means your downtime doesn't happen with everyone else's.

And there are some good reasons for not self-hosting: price/comfort, built-in tools, decent security without having to do your own, etc.

Re: Github Is Down

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Post by dafoex »

livealife wrote: post #55

Isn't GitHub decentralised?

Git the version control system is (well, its "distributed"), but GitHub not so much since the repos themselves are stored central, afaik. I think the most they manage are servers for different countries.

Re: Github Is Down

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Post by rvz »

moviuro wrote: post #61
rvz wrote: post #54

You know you could actually use a self-hosted GitLab for your team's projects. Which is why projects like Xfce [0], GNOME, etc are still up and running and don't suffer from this. Also if I were a school sys-admin I would self-host and use GitLab. [0] https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2020-April/032436....

Self-hosting simply means your downtime doesn't happen with everyone else's. And there are some good reasons for not self-hosting: price/comfort, built-in tools, decent security without having to do your own, etc.

> price/comfort, built-in tools, decent security without having to do your own, etc.

It's more about control and ownership of your own server and data and this same argument can be made for hosting your own website (price, tools, security) which is maintained by you.

You control everything on the server and deal with downtime yourself or as with the context of schools, companies, open-source projects have 'sys-admins' to do this work.

GitHub does not fit with everyone's requirements to do source-code management on a centralized infrastructure, which is why some users have mirrors to Github from their self-hosted solution. (Google, Mozilla, Apple, Linux kernel developers, etc)

If you can self-host your own website, then you should be able to self-host a Gitlab, Gittea, etc solution.

Re: Github Is Down

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Post by aquir »

Yeah, it's very intermittent (from the UK) Sometimes it's 500 and then it works again for a couple of seconds...

Maybe hey just want to show off the new falling OctoCat error page :)

Re: Github Is Down

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Post by robjan »

dafoex wrote: post #65

The website is down? Apache is running, it doesn't make sense to reboot the server. Yeah, I'm getting 500 here in the UK

I have a feeling that their infra is a little more complex than that now.
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