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GitHub Is Down
- forlorn 5mo agoAh, here we go again. A weekly (daily?) github is down thread
- DamonHD 5mo agoFirst time that GitHub has ever been down for me (London, UK): 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.
- yanhangyhy 5mo agoshit i thought it was because my browser. sorry firefox.. why i am keep seeing github down news in HN?
- herrkanin 5mo agoBecause majority of the audience spend large parts of their day on GitHub and it keeps going down.
- exploraz 5mo agoSimply because of being a dependency of many things. https://www.githubstatus.com/history https://www.githubstatus.com/history https://isgithubcooked.com/ https://isgithubcooked.com/
- rvz 5mo agoOnce again, GitHub is down. Last time an incident happened was 2 days ago [0]. Could not have happened on a worse day (Monday) and you can see how unreliable GitHub has been. Better of self-hosting. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418183
- lmm 5mo agoMonday is probably the best day for an outage? Everyone's in the office, so you're not disturbing them, and hung over, so you're not hurting their productivity much.
- m-schuetz 5mo agoAnything I'd self-host would be down way more often than github.
- ta8903 5mo agoOnly for a scale approaching github's, otherwise a gitea instance or whatever doesn't have any interdependent components other than the server you host it on, which won't have nearly as low a downtime as github (though that's a low bar, a better way to phrase it would be saying it would pretty much never be down).
- bigstrat2003 5mo agoI self host my own VCS repos. It's never down. It's not rocket surgery to self host, even for business stuff rather than personal.
- PeterStuer 5mo agoMy on prem forgejo is way less down than github. I use both. You don't have to chose.
- bigpeopleareold 5mo agoIn my employment from the last 3 years, I saw twice that there were two migrations from internal systems to GitHub. I would think that companies are doing this for cost-cutting measures. It's not like something I am going to research but it'd be interesting that their recent issues are related to large migrations from in-house installations to github and doubly, if that is related to how large companies might be tightening up their spending in the past few years.
- witx 5mo agoSlophub is vibing strong
- cyberjunkie 5mo agoWaiting for someone to say this was always the case, not just post Microsoft's takeover.
- Zealotux 5mo agoSoon we'll have to track when Github is up.
- bernds74 5mo agoThe London Underground have been doing it in reverse for a long time. "There is good service on the Piccadilly line."
- Xymist 5mo agoThe phrasing they chose is particularly amusing, since it's always false regardless of the day. They could have said "usual service", and left in the plausible acknowledgement of the fact that it's hot, cramped, miserable, grubby, loud, plague-ridden, mouse-ridden, and generally unpleasant.
- Keyframe 5mo agoWhat's going on with GitHub lately? I've never seen them having so much issues over the years as they do have now.
- orwin 5mo agoMicrosoft management/engineering practices+AI slop.
- Keyframe 5mo agoI get that, but all of that was in there for quite some time though, no?
- netdevphoenix 5mo agoDigital systems don't necessarily deteriorate immediately after the causal factors. Like technical debt, issues grow unnoticed and become visible gradually.
- phplovesong 5mo agoThat, but also AI tools have made github req/res go up by 100x. There is simply too muvh AI generated traffic. I k ow for a fact that ANY other platform would fail faster than github if they had the same volume of http requests.
- Rohunyyy 5mo agoGitHub is down for like the nth time this week? Time for some truly ground breaking statements like this is the result of LLM (yes it is I know)
- JsonDemWitOster 5mo agoWell thankfully it's Monday so they've only been down for the _first_ time this week!
- exploraz 5mo ago> Following investigation, we are seeing that impact is limited to unauthenticated users when accessing Pull Requests or Issues. Our team continues to work towards mitigation with more updates to follow as we have them.
- bob1029 5mo agoThis has gotten to a point where it doesn't really matter anymore. When a service crosses a certain reliability threshold it's like a phase change. The customer base eventually adapts to the situation. Anyone who still genuinely cares has moved to self hosted enterprise or something else by now. It was most tenuous for me when they almost met the SLA. Now that they've blown so far beyond it, the stress is mostly gone.
- JsonDemWitOster 5mo agoI care but I can't move out because it's Orders from Up High which migrated us to Github. We haven't been here a year and it's not worth my neck to mirror our code in some kind of skunkworks forge instance. Woe. Woe is me.
- kelseydh 5mo agoWe have so many automated workflows and pipelines moving through Github Actions + other Github integrations it would be a giant headache to migrate. Not clear where we would go either. Gitlab??
- SOLAR_FIELDS 5mo agoI’ve been running an SMB trending mid market out of gitlab for the greater part of a year with no issues. One of my favorite benefits is that ci runners are colocated with the self hosted instance on k8s so suddenly a whole huge slew of shit that you had to care about with GitHub, security, provenance and supply chain is just… not an issue. Getting off the GitHub actions dependency is a feature, not a bug
- PeterStuer 5mo agoOf course. Every non trivial migration is a 'headache'. But so is being down too many times. At the very least explore and prepare for alternatives. Map out dependencies that are not trivial to replace. There's probably fewer of those than you think.
- exhilaration 5mo ago
- darkwater 5mo agoAm I hallucinating or did they do a "cleanup" of the GH status in their status page? https://www.githubstatus.com/ https://www.githubstatus.com/ API Requests with 4 nines of availability?? Issues with 99.96 uptime? PR with 99.61% uptime last 90 days?? https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ marks PRs at 95.89% in the same period as an example.
- craigmart 5mo agoI had checked that page not long ago, and as far as I remember there were many "red" or "orange" days in the past 3 months. Now it's all green. That's concerning
- coolgoose 5mo agoThey have an incident reported today, but the status page for actions shows green :D that's fun.
- kaelwd 5mo agohttps://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/x69zbgdyfzg0 https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/x69zbgdyfzg0 took three days to resolve and isn't being counted as an outage on the official page.
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- ramon156 5mo agoWelcome back everyone
- JsonDemWitOster 5mo agoThe Google SRE book offers the following as one of the reasons to not gun for 100% reliability (emphasis added): > users typically don’t notice the difference between high reliability and extreme reliability in a service, because the user experience is dominated by less reliable components like the cellular network or the device they are working with. Put simply, a user on a 99% reliable smartphone cannot tell the difference between 99.99% and 99.999% service reliability! I've been on a shaky relationship with my ISP of late. What brought me to this thread today is that I couldn't push to Github. Notably this isn't covered by their downtime report so, going by the available facts, it's _probably_ not Github's fault I couldn't push; and I've just been on my daily stand-up call and I got disconnected so frequently. But looking beyond today's available facts, odds are there's a bigger problem GH is not mentioning in their status page. They say the current incident has to do with "unauthorized users" and I wonder if pushing a commit from my IDE client counts as an operation from an "unauthorized user" as I still have to authorize with my SSH key. It's just insane I can't decide which between Github or German o2 should be the more reliable service!
- kelseydh 5mo agoApparently Github is experiencing a huge increase in usage due to LLMs and this is the cause for a lot of their instability as of late.
- PeterStuer 5mo ago'Experiencing' makes it sound like they have no deliberate choice. No, they let this happen, by choice. They could have prevented this, contractually, by pricing, by governance, but chose not to.
- IshKebab 5mo ago> Put simply, a user on a 99% reliable smartphone cannot tell the difference between 99.99% and 99.999% service reliability! Sure they can. If Google loads and Github doesn't, then it's clearly Github being down, not the mobile network. Also not everyone uses a phone. My desktop & fibre internet has way better than 99% reliability.
- sscaryterry 5mo agoNow self-hosting, left the dumpster fire.
- deviation 5mo agoWe should have a pinned post, just for GitHub outages.
- phplovesong 5mo agoPeople seem to miss entirely that this is not (only) some slop code that makes github go down, but its the fact that they get 100x the number of requests since AI tools came to the devs daily workflow.