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First time I've ever seen it down, I guess there's a first for everything. Now I understand why many people are very paranoid when it comes to taking backups.

by oars 6y ago

First time I've ever seen it down, I guess there's a first for everything. Now I understand why many people are very paranoid when it comes to taking backups. Is it worth backing up my GitHub repos somewhere else? What do other people use as an alternative source of truth for their code?

huseyinkeles 6y ago
Not sure if you were being sarcastic but Github goes down quite often :) https://hn.algolia.com/?q=github+down https://hn.algolia.com/?q=github+down
- s9w 6y ago
  I think this implied that it never was down for him before when it was reported to be down. Which is exactly my experience, too. I've seen a lot of GH down posts here - it never was for me. Now it's the same.
  - arghwhat 6y ago
    Possibly region/cluster specific? Not loading for me from Denmark.
- sbahr001 6y ago
  https://downdetector.com/status/github/archive/2020/06 https://downdetector.com/status/github/archive/2020/06, This verifies your data as well, but if you look at the data from Jan '20 to July '19(massive issues in july), there have been more outages. Keep in mind that the stats don't include small outages that last upwards of 2 mins or are region specific. My team and I have been encountering a lot of two min or less kind(usually fixes on a refresh 10 seconds latter). It gets annoying after a while. Its weird given that github hasn't adjusted to quarantine effect.
arghwhat 6y ago
GitHub is down all the god damn time. At this point, I consider it the least reliable hosting service available. But, to be fair, it's also the one with the most traffic.
- secondcoming 6y ago
  We moved to github from Bitbucket because the latter was not up to scratch at all. Even with this issue I'm not planning to move back.
  - arghwhat 6y ago
    Okay, true, Atlassian cloud products are way worse, even when they work. I wouldn't consider them a serious SaaS player in the slightest.
    - ethbro 6y ago
      Atlassian does SaaS like Java does terseness.
pletnes 6y ago
You can always set up a «git fetch» cronjon on your dev laptop/rpi/vps/toaster. I had one on all repos in my ~/git directory to ensure I have up-to-date repos without manual intervention.
Vinnl 6y ago
The code is not the problem; you and other collaborators have a copy of the code locally. It's the fact that I can't submit or update PRs anymore and collaborate with my colleagues that's annoying, and no backup can fix that.
einszwei 6y ago
I'd consider mirroring to another provider like gitlab. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/repository_mirroring.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/repositor...

by oars 6y ago

huseyinkeles 6y ago

Not sure if you were being sarcastic but Github goes down quite often :) https://hn.algolia.com/?q=github+down https://hn.algolia.com/?q=github+down

s9w 6y ago
I think this implied that it never was down for him before when it was reported to be down. Which is exactly my experience, too. I've seen a lot of GH down posts here - it never was for me. Now it's the same.
- arghwhat 6y ago
  Possibly region/cluster specific? Not loading for me from Denmark.
sbahr001 6y ago
https://downdetector.com/status/github/archive/2020/06 https://downdetector.com/status/github/archive/2020/06, This verifies your data as well, but if you look at the data from Jan '20 to July '19(massive issues in july), there have been more outages. Keep in mind that the stats don't include small outages that last upwards of 2 mins or are region specific. My team and I have been encountering a lot of two min or less kind(usually fixes on a refresh 10 seconds latter). It gets annoying after a while. Its weird given that github hasn't adjusted to quarantine effect.

arghwhat 6y ago

GitHub is down all the god damn time. At this point, I consider it the least reliable hosting service available. But, to be fair, it's also the one with the most traffic.

secondcoming 6y ago
We moved to github from Bitbucket because the latter was not up to scratch at all. Even with this issue I'm not planning to move back.
- arghwhat 6y ago
  Okay, true, Atlassian cloud products are way worse, even when they work. I wouldn't consider them a serious SaaS player in the slightest.
  - ethbro 6y ago
    Atlassian does SaaS like Java does terseness.

pletnes 6y ago

You can always set up a «git fetch» cronjon on your dev laptop/rpi/vps/toaster. I had one on all repos in my ~/git directory to ensure I have up-to-date repos without manual intervention.

Vinnl 6y ago

The code is not the problem; you and other collaborators have a copy of the code locally. It's the fact that I can't submit or update PRs anymore and collaborate with my colleagues that's annoying, and no backup can fix that.

einszwei 6y ago

I'd consider mirroring to another provider like gitlab. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/repository_mirroring.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/repositor...