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Over the past 2 or so weeks, I’ve been getting 500 errors from GitHub quite regularly. A page will take a while to load, then finally fail with an octocat error
by maddyboo 7y ago
Over the past 2 or so weeks, I’ve been getting 500 errors from GitHub quite regularly. A page will take a while to load, then finally fail with an octocat error page. Reloading the page usually succeeds with the correct page, so it seems to be some sort of intermittent issue. In the years I’ve used GitHub, I can’t remember this ever happening – I wonder if this incident is related? Has their user base expanded a lot lately and they’re having difficulty scaling their system to meet demand? I know that I have been noticing a seeming increase in activity and new users as GitHub becomes more and more mainstream, I wonder what their growth looks like.
- ryanianian 7y agoGitHub has a really bad track-record on reliability. I worked on our devops systems for a while. Every `git clone` had to have multiple retries, and even then there were multi-minute outages multiple times a month that caused things to turn red and caused distrust in our CI pipeline. I tried hard to get my company to not rely on github as part of our CI process (as others in these comments indicate) but that's an expensive proposition for many - similar to relying on other third-party cdns like dockerhub, npmjs.org, etc.
- noir_lord 7y agoBitbucket isn't really any better, they just surf the line of "right, that's it I'll just run Gitea on a local server, I've had enough" and convenience.