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Who 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/ 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

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5792510

I 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.

Agree. It turns HN into a defacto Github status monitoring tool. See these many examples: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%2...

100% 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.

Exactly. And anyone who needs to know will certainly not have to rely on Hacker News to find out.

For 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?

We 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 (which is my company), it's really easy to do.

Not all outages affect git. Several major downtimes were on the HTTP-side only, and git push/deploy worked for us.

bitbucket.org is not bad.

We do not. I'd be interested in hearing suggestions on how.

Having 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.

We use Gitolite, it's not totally amazing, but it works.

Might be helpful to have a link to the status page as well: https://status.github.com/messages

https://status.github.com

It 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.

We 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.

The status page isnt postable on HN

Under DDOS

Who would do that to GitHub?

Lots 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

Why do people do this?

Because single points of failure are a big KICK ME sign. http://bit.ly/ZwhmHB

Link shorteners are discouraged on HN. http://amyfelts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/159580000x-ki... (It's just a cartoon of a "kick me" sign.)

Fo $

They say that for every outage.

GitHub is down? Ugh! What is this? North Korea?

For me it's up again. Anyone else too?

Yup, seems to be back up here. status.github.com also shows that "GitHub.com Availability" is normal.

its up for me too..

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