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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

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

I wouldn't consider self hosting better with regards to downtime. Our company has various self hosted components like jenkins and all and full time people to manage that, and I can say for sure their downtime is more than github. And good luck if you think you can manage everything for a side project.

Re: GitHub was down

#72

Post by ptman »

Evidlo wrote: post #37
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

The downside is that a lot of these self hosted archives will have disappeared 10 years from now. Meanwhile, I expect many forgotten repos to remain online with Github one way or another for a very long time. If you do go the self-hosting route, add a mainstream host as an additional remote and push your commits to both.

Is there something like archive.org but for git (and why not other vcs) that finds repos and periodically fetches?

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by zuppy »

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?

never trust external tools in your build process, you may have an emergency and not be able to fix.

we are trying to migrate to https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-repository-oss (self hosted), it would cache the git tags and you just have to replace the git links to nexus like in the dependency manager.

if you want something simpler, you can try satis for php, sinopia or verdaccio for npm packages. you will find a lot of other tools for the other languages.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by kelnos »

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?

Since the Pi4 can boot from USB now (might still be in beta, not sure if it's fully released), I would get a USB3 to M.2 adapter, buy a decent M.2 drive, and use that. It'll take up more space than the SD card, obviously, but not that much more.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by avancemos »

Insanity wrote: post #21
kenhwang wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember it being a weekly occurrence before Microsoft as well. edit: though their historical data doesn't back it up. It's just a 2020 thing it seems; coincidentally picked up right near the middle of February which correlates way too closely with the beginning of COVID.

correlation != causation though.

And yet (Correlation != causation) != (!causation)

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by breakingcups »

a012 wrote: post #17

I know Github is down because I'm trying to update a kops cluster, but Github breaks it > kops update cluster error reading channel "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable": unexpected response code "500 Internal Server Error" for "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable": 500: Internal Server Error

See, I like the idea of K8S quite a lot. Enough that I decided to set up a cluster from scratch to figure out how everything ties together.

I've since grown to strongly dislike how much of the entire ecosystem seems to depend on random unversioned Github gists or direct links into a raw file in a repo somewhere.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by kelnos »

m0xte wrote: post #42
navanchauhan wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

As someone who's been running a media server and home automation server on his Pi 24/7 for 3 years now, I beg to differ.
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