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Github is Down
- dpedu 13y agoUnder DDOS
- garand 13y agoWhy do people do this?
- TheRubyist 13y agoFo $
- dsjoerg 13y agoBecause single points of failure are a big KICK ME sign. http://bit.ly/ZwhmHB http://bit.ly/ZwhmHB
- sp332 13y agoLink shorteners are discouraged on HN. http://amyfelts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/159580000x-kick-me-countermeasures1.jpg http://amyfelts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/159580000x-ki... (It's just a cartoon of a "kick me" sign.)
- gabipurcaru 13y agoWho would do that to GitHub?
- bdcravens 13y agoLots of folks: 1) someone who is adversely affected by software hosted there 2) someone who sells source code hosting and sees GitHub as competitor 3) someone wanting to demonstrate fragility of software that relies on GitHub for underlying package management (such as NPM) 4) someone wanting to disrupt a blog that uses GitHub as the data store etc
- kevinastone 13y agoThey say that for every outage.
- mikeevans 13y agoMight be helpful to have a link to the status page as well: https://status.github.com/messages https://status.github.com/messages
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- jkubicek 13y agohttps://status.github.com https://status.github.com
- cullenmacdonald 13y agoThe status page isnt postable on HN
- leetrout 13y agoIt seems that page must be manually updated or very slow to update. I noticed gists weren't working for what seemed like 15 minutes or more before it acknowledged there was an issue. Even now it lists all services as available even though the top message indicates a major disruption.
- pbiggar 13y agoWe see the same. We use GitHub at such scale that we tend to see errors between 20 minutes and 2 weeks before they go up on their status page.
- dedene 13y agoFor me it's up again. Anyone else too?
- callmevlad 13y agoFor those who use Github as their primary origin server AND perform deploys via git, do you have redundancy measures in place to enable you to keep pushing code even during these outages?
- trebor 13y agoNot all outages affect git. Several major downtimes were on the HTTP-side only, and git push/deploy worked for us.
- issaria 13y agobitbucket.org is not bad.
- dpcx 13y agoWe do not. I'd be interested in hearing suggestions on how.
- makeramen 13y agoHaving a bitbucket mirror isn't a bad idea. They have free private repos for up to 5 users, so if you just have an admin and the deploy user on there you can get redundancy for "free". Just have to keep it in sync, but that shouldn't be too hard with DVCS and everyone having a local copy.
- mattbeck 13y agoWe use Gitolite, it's not totally amazing, but it works.
- pbiggar 13y agoWe stopped deploying with git as a result. We package up our code into S3, and download it to our images. Its also much much faster than GitHub. If you use a hosted Continuous Delivery system like https://circleci.com https://circleci.com (which is my company), it's really easy to do.
- WestCoastJustin 13y agoWho cares? By the time this item gets upvotes the sites are almost always fixed. Is this hacker news worthy? I suggest we ban these submissions. This is the second, X is down notice today, Github [1] and Dropbox [2]. Personally, I'd much prefer a submission to https://status.github.com/ https://status.github.com/ with a comment about the Major service outage. Posting the Github.com link is next to useless. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793948 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5792510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5792510
- dreen 13y ago+1
- bdcravens 13y agoI think it's fine to post about outages - that's relevant news, and even if site is back up, always results in relevant and theoretically good discussion. I do agree that linking to the URL that's down is a special kind of stupid. At that point, it's a non-link, and there's little value in watching my browser spin.
- jt2190 13y agoAgree. It turns HN into a defacto Github status monitoring tool. See these many examples: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22github+is+down%22&start=0 https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%2...
- naranja 13y ago100% FullAck : Who cares! Git is a DISTRIBUTED VCS exactly for this reason, so there is absolutely _no point at all_ to bother HN unless its a full outage lasting longer than 1 day.
- cybernoodles 13y agoExactly. And anyone who needs to know will certainly not have to rely on Hacker News to find out.
- kine 13y agoGitHub is down? Ugh! What is this? North Korea?
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