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Github.com is down
- negrit 13y agoHow is this an interesting news ? Because my comment isn't clear. This is not an interesting news. A link to the twitter status or the github status (https://status.github.com/messages https://status.github.com/messages) would be relevant in that case. not just some link to a third party telling us it's down. Yeah thank you. I could have notice it on my own....
- loginalready 13y agoBecause it just brought a lot of people's work to a screeching halt. People who are massively represented here on HN.
- RutZap 13y agoProbably because they said they are under a large ddos attack? :-? I wonder why would someone do something like this? It's not like github is evil or anything... it's just a really cool and useful tool for coders. It helped a lot of people better their skills and knowledge. Why would someone attack it? (I am genuinely interested in this as I can't think of a reason someone would do something like this)
- negrit 13y agoNo they dont. The link just says, github is down, nothing else, an interesting news would be a link to the twitter post.
- barrkel 13y agohttps://status.github.com/messages https://status.github.com/messages
- AYBABTME 13y agoYou're not the first to wonder ^^ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5866047 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5866047
- danabramov 13y agoWell, this brought me here.
- sspiff 13y agoIt's the main hosting service for most developers' source code and a large part of how many open source projects organize, communicate and work. I guess that makes it a tiny bit more relevant than yet another post about how some mediocre entrepreneur thinks we should all live our lives.
- reidrac 13y agoYou didn't get his point. The submitted URL doesn't provide useful information, https://status.github.com/messages https://status.github.com/messages could have been used instead. May be when the link was submitted the official information wasn't available. OK, then just wait for something useful because if the site is down and I'm affected I can see that myself, I don't need to read HN. EDIT: oh, looks like the original comment was edited.
- sspiff 13y agoWell, in that case, sure. His statement was a little broad (or even ambiguous) and I think my interpretation was the most obvious/straightforward one.
- pjmlp 13y ago> It's the main hosting service for most developers' source code I seriously doubt that.
- sspiff 13y agoIn the hacker/open source community, I'm fairly sure it is.
- pjmlp 13y agoAmong HN readers maybe, but the hacker/open source community is much more than that.
- DavidBradbury 13y ago
- Blahah 13y agomany people on HN will also find it useful to know that github is down for everyone (rather than just them)
- harrytuttle 13y agoBecause tragically, most people have all their eggs in one github shaped basket. Git on it's own doesn't suffer from the issue of scary downtime (occasionally repo corruption...), but people have bought deeply into the value-added ecosystem that github throws over the top of it. It's a show-stopper for them.
- sspiff 13y agoI have some of my code on GitHub and some on Bitbucket (for the free private repos), all of my code on my Dropbox and it's synced to 4 different machines. However, the library I'm working with is hosted on GitHub, their doxygen is on GitHub, their wiki is on GitHub, and I don't have a local version of either of those, which is now pretty annoying.
- harrytuttle 13y agoVery true. This is a major irritation. I rather like Golang because of stuff like this as you can run your own local documentation server and stuff. It's just a neat self-contained package.
- AYBABTME 13y agoDocs, tests, profiler, race detector, linter, build system. Go ships with everything. I love Go.
- Dirlewanger 13y agoIt's not, really. But I assume a good number of us have jobs that depend on it, and out of the big sites out there they are out quite frequent. And then like past threads this one will fill up with people proclaiming they're done with Github and having enough of their shit and looking for alternatives...
- shocks 13y agoIt's a nice reminder not to put all your eggs in one basket.
- jdaley 13y ago@githubstatus: Working with our upstream providers to mitigate a rather large DDoS at the moment.
- antihero 13y agoWhy would someone go to all the trouble of making a botnet, then DDoSing GitHub ffs.
- tokenizerrr 13y agoWhy not? They likely already have a botnet, they didn't make it to DDoS GitHub specifically. Maybe they were annoyed with someone who was using GitHub, or they wanted to prove a point, who knows. All in all, the reason is because they can.
- sayit 13y agoMaybe there is NO ddos
- jakub_g 13y agohttps://status.github.com/messages https://status.github.com/messages is a better place to keep up with news like that.
- boothead 13y agoMy intuition would be that status.service.com is not a useful place to look if service.com is down... edit that's not supposed to be as snarkey as it sounds reading it back :-) edit again The reason for this intuition is that I assume that not being able to reach service.com could indicate a DNS problem. Possibly from the comments below I need to go and read a DNS book :-)
- maaaats 13y agoMy intuition is that it is. I didn't know github was really down, but had problem accessing it. Went to status.github.com and got the results, not really knowing if the address existed or not (just guessed). These sites are often hosted away from the main service, and thus available even when problems occur.
- cpfohl 13y agoMost services run their `status` service on a different server entirely. It's the only possible way it could ever make sense.
- jamesroseman 13y agoActually, I've always checked status.service to see if Github is up, it must be hosted on a separate server.
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- hbz 13y agoRight in the middle of a deploy for us! Thankfully we're getting enterprise so hopefully this is last time a DDoS messes with our productivity.
- dubcanada 13y agoDon't forget you have a complete copy locally. Throw it in bit bucket and deploy!
- filip01 13y agoWouldn't it be a good idea for Github to set up a video + sound stream from their office when these things occur? I for one would watch. Can't really work anyway (at least that's what I persuade myself to think).
- tokenizerrr 13y agoHow could that possibly be a good idea for them? More distractions while they're trying to fix shit?
- filip01 13y agoI'm just joking. (But who knows, maybe people would take lighter on the downtime if they could see the team working really hard to fix it).
- tokenizerrr 13y agoMaybe they would, but I'm sure a bunch of people would also be wondering why they waste their time on putting on a show instead of fixing their core business :P
- filip01 13y agoYou might have a point there :)
- xionon 13y agoGitHub's employees are massively distributed. A video + sound stream might not be as interesting as you think.
- filip01 13y agoAlright, perhaps ordinary web cams on the faces of the employees involved? Just seeing the hard work and stress in their eyes would be pretty soothing. That might be an idea for any site: "We're currently down, but here are the faces in real-time of our engineers trying to fix it".
- jamesroseman 13y agoWhere are these attacks coming from? Or is it just failure to keep up with increased client traffic? I've noticed recently how frequently there are service issues with Github, many times service has been disrupted because of DDoS attacks and similar malicious activity.
- shocks 13y agoA nice reminder not to put all your eggs in one basket.
- cliveowen 13y agoWhy this kind of links get always promoted? What's the point? Genuine question.
- stevekemp 13y agoAgreed. If you're affected you know, if you're not you don't care. Your comment is ten minutes old, and the site is back. Not that I noticed the outage.
- tehwebguy 13y agoGood question! One reason I like them is that it's easy to pull your hair out trying to figure out why something isn't working without checking an obvious (but not entirely likely) cause.
- JosephRedfern 13y agoAnd we're back!
- josephlord 13y agohttps://status.github.com/ https://status.github.com/ Interestingly while the message at top indicates the DDOS issue the availabilities all show "Normal" for me.
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- littleq0903 13y agoit's back
- ispolin 13y agoGood thing about decentralized version control systems is that they're decentralized. I hope github can deal with today's issue without too much trouble, but it's not a major inconvenience to me and the rest of my company's devs. We can just push and pull changes to some convenient in-house server via ssh to sync up our work.
- dpcx 13y agoBad thing about github is that people tend to use it in a non-decentralized manner. In our case, all of our deploys do a clone from github.
- ispolin 13y agoThat's true, it's a problem when you depend on having the repository at a specific location or depend on something that's not in the repo, like wiki or issue tracking, as mentioned in the other comments. I just wanted to express my appreciation that github being down is not as big an issue for most people as it would be if github was cvshub or svnhub. :-)
- josephlord 13y ago"12:44 UTC We've put mitigation in place that should deflect the attack, and services are recovering. We're continuing to monitor closely." - https://status.github.com/ https://status.github.com/ And it seems to be working for me again not.
- sayit 13y agoThey are not going to say "this person did this error", so "we have a DDOS" sounds more pro.
- Zergy 13y agoI put all my personal projects on BitBucket and GitHub (and sometimes CodePlex for the comunities into that sort of thing) and just push to all of them. Never ever had both down at the same time (in fact I don't think BitBucket has gone down once since I started using it). There are multiple free git hosting sites no reason not to use them all at once.