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15 pointsioeu16 comments

This is a pretty good time to reflect on how reliable Github has become recently. A year ago, GitHub was going down regularly from DDoS. I know because I was on pagerduty for https://circleci.com, and often had to wake up to respond to issues.

In the last 6-9 months, GitHub has been pretty flawless, and issues are solved almost immediately.

Great job guys, the hard work you put into improving your architecture shows!

It's fine in London as well. By the looks of it, the downloads are broken.

I rarely comment on the hyperbole of downtimes and how it ruins lives etc etc. However when a hosting company goes down its a big issue as we cant serve our product / sites but we can launch another server and away we go minus the costs. But when Github goes down we can no longer collaborate it feels like a much bigger issue. I really love Github but I'm glad we use Gitlab as then the onus is completely on us.

If only there were a distributed version control system, not dependent on central servers.

What is this magic you speak of?

Distributed, that has to be some kind of made up word.

I agree, presuming you use Github for more than just hosting code. Ironically, I was in the middle of evaluating wheter we should start using Github for more than just hosting code, e.g., lightweight project management through issues, code reviews through issues, internal company documentation through wiki etc. when I noticed it being down!

Apparently, it's a major service outage [1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/489336842861686784

It does sound rather major [1]. I'm looking forward to hear the aftermath of this.

[1]: https://twitter.com/githubstatus

It seems to be up again [1].

[1]: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/github.com

1. Try git push -> timed out

2. Check website -> No response

3. Head to HN to check Github status

4. Downtime confirmed.

5. Head for coffee break :D

git push - timed out

2. git checkout -b new_branch

3. Slave away for our corporate and intelligence agency overlords.

Seems like their background workers were down too. My colleague sent a pull request before the went down and got the notification just a few minutes ago.

Looks like there's an issue with their Gravatar integration, only avatars which have been uploaded to Github are currently showing.

Maybe I'm accessing the cache, but I'm able to see it (in Taiwan).

From Spain its ok. I can use github as well

Its the start of internship seasons, interns are starting to break everything. ^_^

It's back up!

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