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Ask HN: Why does Github go down so often?

by mphillips2357 on 9/17/13, 7:32 PM with 2 comments

It seems like Github has been going down a lot lately. Is there a particular reason that is the source of their troubles? What about Github's architecture might make it more vulnerable to downtime than other sites and services?

  • by zellio on 9/17/13, 7:42 PM

    I don't think they actually have a higher failure rate than other large scale web applications. They are just very open about their failures and data. http://status.github.com/ reports an uptime of 99.8% for the month. Not _fantastic_ but very very good.