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The last time GitHub went down was in January and it was over two hours.

What prevents GitLab from going down like GitHub?

Update: Yeah, maybe if we run an own GitLab instance in our corporate network.

Update update: Hmm, there seem to be outages in February, March and April, too. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11736331

Any Git hosting provider as large as GH is also likely to go down once in a while. The bigger your scale is the more difficult it is to get nines.

I dunno, I'd see it as the opposite. The bigger the scale the more cost effective it is to have more redundancy. I can't remember the last time Google search wasn't working or saw news about it being down.

The fact that github keeps going down while being a huge business shows they still need to work on having more redundancy, something that's expected of big services like theirs.

well, a lot of people's work is reliant on it, so i'd say it's a pretty important thing.

> Also, please use GitLab.

and you can't just say "use xyz".

GitLab is and GitHub is NOT:

- Free

- Open source

- CI integrated

- Rapid development (because open-source)