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Sure, GitHub is "heavily relied upon resource for the open source community" - but what is really the impact of their downtime? You have to wait a little longe
by Ricapar 14y ago
Sure, GitHub is "heavily relied upon resource for the open source community" - but what is really the impact of their downtime?
You have to wait a little longer to do your push/pull/merge/etc?
Give them a break.
- chuhnk 14y agoRemember that individuals and organisations pay for private repo hosting. Aren't they entitled to an adequate SLA of say 4 9s a year?
- nixgeek 14y agoAs with any purchasing decision you can read the T&Cs when making up your mind and are free to vote with your wallet if you disagree. Another factoid is that Amazon Web Services (AWS) only offers a 99.95% SLA so where did the 99.99% for GitHub come from?
- chuhnk 14y agoWhy does it matter that AWS is 99.95%? "Cloud" based services like AWS and AppEngine have more relaxed SLAs. GitHub is not a cloud service, its a centralized version control repository. And the 4 9s, well that's just something I've always strived for when providing a service but I do believe we should all hold ourselves to it.
- gcr 14y agoWhen seen in that light, lots of nonessential services seem equally unimportant. What's really the impact of Facebook downtime? You have to wait a little longer to "poke" your crush's profile/look at their picture/etc? Give them a break.
- kawsper 14y agoHomebrew on OSX is unusable without Github. Rubygems is kind of unusable without Github. Several ppensource projects documentation is unavailable without Github.
- sounds 14y agoThe other comment was closer to the heart of it: if those projects used Github's paid hosting maybe they'd have a reason to complain. Part of the beauty of git is that it would be absolutely _trivial_ to have a secondary "backup URL" located somewhere else if Github were down. And git would automatically handle the rest.