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But, hypothetically speaking as of now, could this be automated? And if so, how?

• __david__ 12y ago
  Redundancy. Lots of it. A simple example would be hitting your website with a script every so often and when it stops responding then update your DNS to point to another data center that's up and ready to go.
• bricestacey 12y ago
  In short, no, unless you think people replacing broken hardware or patching bugs in your software can be automated. Your question is too vague. Github is up enough that I don't care. However, it's down enough I wouldn't want to not be able to deploy because it's down. Therefore, I may mirror my repo somewhere else. That's easy because git is decentralized. It's a lot cheaper than running some alternative that I guarantee is always running. You can do this by simply pushing to a mirrored remote branch. If you're just interested in the subject, research high availability.
• bricestacey 12y ago
  In short, no, unless you think people replacing broken hardware or patching bugs in your software can be automated. Your question is too vague. Github is up enough that I don't care. However, it's down enough I wouldn't want to not be able to deploy because it's down. Therefore, I may mirror my repo somewhere else. That's easy because git is decentralized. It's a lot cheaper than running some alternative that I guarantee is always running. You can do this by simply pushing to a mirrored remote branch. If you're just interested in the subject, research high availability.