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GitHub Is Down

by funOtter on 2/18/23, 3:59 AM with 44 comments

  • by tananaev on 2/18/23, 4:47 AM

    I see a lot of hate for GitHub after Microsoft, but there were many big improvement that I think outweigh some instability, especially for smaller companies or open source projects. Free private repos and free GitHub actions. The UI is also pretty nice and clean. I think GitHub is still one of the best options to host your code.

  • by dwheeler on 2/18/23, 4:24 AM

    I wish my best to the GitHub operations team. There's going to be a lot of pressure to get things running.

  • by nforgerit on 2/18/23, 4:20 AM

    Can confirm 500s. Not sure what is happening but to me it feels like Github became pretty unreliable in the last 2-3 years. I remember several occasions when teams and whole companies I worked at were basically blocked by Github/Actions/Whatever funny service they were paying for.

    From those experiences I wouldn't recommend Github anymore because I really question the benefit of having a blackbox-as-a-service you're fully locked into kinda randomly failing, IIRC correctly Actions was down 2y ago for 1-2 days which is like, a lot these days.

  • by rvz on 2/18/23, 4:17 AM

    I wonder if developers have realised already how unreliable GitHub has been since Microsoft acquired them. I expect them to have an incident every month. Just look at their greatest recent hits: here [0] and [1]

    It's no wonder why going all in on Github makes absolutely no sense. Like I said years ago, it is better to just self-host or mirror your repository to GitHub.

    Blender surely did choose wisely [2] and perhaps this is the time to self-host your repositories and not 'centralize everything to GitHub' [3]

    [0] https://www.githubstatus.com/history

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32752965

    [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34700390

    [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

  • by kstrauser on 2/18/23, 4:41 AM

    I saw this yesterday (https://freeradical.zone/@tek/109876335075879967), although their status page was all green. I ran a command line like:

      for i in (seq 10); git clone https://me:api_key@github.com/… foo; rm -rf foo; sleep 5; end
    Out of those 10 clones, 2 of them succeeded, and 8 failed (evenly split between 2 different error messages). I opened a trouble ticket because our CI server was driving us nuts with alerts. The status was never anything but all green, though.

  • by tzhenghao on 2/18/23, 4:24 AM

    It seems intermittent for me when browsing repositories, both public and internal/private ones. Normally works every 4/5th refresh, but I might be partially responsible for making it worse.

  • by HankB99 on 2/18/23, 2:26 PM

    I run a Gitea server on my (home lab) file server. At one point I ran a second server in parallel during a migration. It was pretty straight forward to configure projects to use two servers in parallel. But 99% of my usage is to simply store a copy of my files. Occasionally I file an issue as a reminder. I wonder how difficult it is for users of more advanced features such as CI/CD pipelines to duplicate that functionality either on other public servers (Gitlab? Bitbucket?) or a self hosted server.

  • by halostatue on 2/18/23, 4:01 AM

    This is a better URL for this incident: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/t2xwk9mz56f4

    Everything is currently marked as "degraded", but in reality the entire website is returning 500s.

  • by hunkins on 2/18/23, 4:18 AM

    Trying to get a production build out and... it's down.

  • by captn3m0 on 2/18/23, 4:53 AM

    > green is experiencing degraded availability. We are still investigating and will provide an update when we have one.

    Anyone knows what service is called green.

  • by oefrha on 2/18/23, 4:28 AM

    Have they ever resolved their MySQL problem?

  • by nickstinemates on 2/18/23, 4:15 AM

    Seems to be working for me.. just cloned, pushed, and browsed files. Regional thing?

  • by rom-antics on 2/18/23, 4:16 AM

    https://www.githubstatus.com/history

    So far in February there have been 14 incidents. Today is February 17. If you do the math, 14 ÷ 17 = a lot of fucking downtime.

  • by pdimitar on 2/18/23, 4:31 AM

    Either this is Ruby on Rails in all of its glory, or their infrastructure and ops need a lot of attention.

    GitHub is definitely down more often in the last couple of years though. It's noticeable. Hope they figure it out.

  • by prosim on 2/18/23, 4:45 AM

    It's back up.