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Github is Down

41 points| sethbannon | 13 years ago |github.com | reply

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[+] WestCoastJustin|13 years ago|reply
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

[+] bdcravens|13 years ago|reply
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.

[+] naranja|13 years ago|reply
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.
[+] cybernoodles|13 years ago|reply
Exactly. And anyone who needs to know will certainly not have to rely on Hacker News to find out.
[+] callmevlad|13 years ago|reply
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?
[+] pbiggar|13 years ago|reply
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.

[+] trebor|13 years ago|reply
Not all outages affect git. Several major downtimes were on the HTTP-side only, and git push/deploy worked for us.
[+] issaria|13 years ago|reply
bitbucket.org is not bad.
[+] dpcx|13 years ago|reply
We do not. I'd be interested in hearing suggestions on how.
[+] jkubicek|13 years ago|reply
https://status.github.com
[+] leetrout|13 years ago|reply
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.

[+] dpedu|13 years ago|reply
Under DDOS
[+] gabipurcaru|13 years ago|reply
Who would do that to GitHub?
[+] garand|13 years ago|reply
Why do people do this?
[+] kine|13 years ago|reply
GitHub is down? Ugh! What is this? North Korea?
[+] dedene|13 years ago|reply
For me it's up again. Anyone else too?
[+] tlongren|13 years ago|reply
Yup, seems to be back up here. status.github.com also shows that "GitHub.com Availability" is normal.