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GitHub Is Having Issues

polyrand
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GitHub

outage

status update

The GitHub status page doesn't report anything. But many people (including myself) from my team are reporting that we can't clone, fetch, push, etc. Neither to our private repos nor public ones.

GitHub experienced an outage, and users were able to track the incident's status through GitHub's status page.

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Discussion (1 comments)
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fidotron
13h ago
1 reply
It used to be having GitHub in the critical path for deployment wasn't so bad, but these days you'd have to be utterly irresponsible to work that way.

They need to get a grip on this.

MattGaiser
13h ago
1 reply
Eh, the lesson from us-east-1 outage is that you should cling to the big ones instead. You get the convenience + nobody gets mad at you over the failure.
bhouston
13h ago
1 reply
Everything will have periods of unreliability. The only solution is to be multi-everything (multi-provider for most things), but the costs for that are quite high and hard to see the value in that.
dylan604
13h ago
yes, but if you are going to provide assurances like SLAs, you need to be aware of your own allow for them. if you're customers require working with known problem areas, you should add a clause exempting those areas when they are the cause.
JLCarveth
13h ago
1 reply
The last outage was a whole 5 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45915731
jmclnx
13h ago
1 reply
Didn't I hear github is moving to Microsoft Azure ? I wonder if these outages are related to the move.

Remember hotmail :)

bhouston
13h ago
2 replies
Huh? What were they own before. The acquisition by MSFT is 7 years ago, they maintained their own infrastructure for that long?
JLCarveth
13h ago
The Github CEO did step down a few months ago, they never named a successor. Could have something to do with the recent issues. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865560
silverwind
12h ago
Yes they are/were on their own hardware. The outages will only get worse with this move.
_pdp_
13h ago
1 reply
Is it just me or it seems that there is an increased frequency of these types of incidents as of late.
RGamma
13h ago
[delayed]
case0x
13h ago
2 replies
I wish I could say something smart such as “People/Organisations should host their own git servers“, but as someone who had the misfortune of doing that in the past I rather have a non-functional GitHub.
Mossly
13h ago
1 reply
I've found Gitea to be pretty rock solid, at least for a small team.
gelbphoenix
12h ago
Would even recommend Forgejo (the same project Codeberg also uses as the base for their service)
mkreis
13h ago
I'm curious to learn from your mistakes, can you please elaborate what went wrong?
keepamovin
12h ago
[delayed]
personjerry
13h ago
Looks like Gemini 3 figured out the best way to save costs on its compute time costs and executed!
whynotmaybe
13h ago
We gonna need xkcd "compiling" but with "cloudflare||github||chatgpt||spotify down".

https://xkcd.com/303/

ssawchenko
13h ago
Same.

ERROR: no healthy upstream fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

mysteria
12h ago
Cloudflare this morning, and now this. A bunch of work isn't getting done today.
shooker435
13h ago
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/5q7nmlxz30sk

it's up now (the incident, not the outage)

thinkindie
13h ago
I really can't believe this. I had issues with CircleCI too earlier, soon after the incident with Cloudflare resolved.
kennysmoothx
13h ago
What a day...
dang
12h ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971726.
dogman123
13h ago
hell yea brother
85392_school
13h ago
Seeing "404: Not Found" for all raw files
shooker435
13h ago
The internet is having one heck of a day! we focus on ecommerce technology and I can't help but think our customers will be getting nervous pre-BFCM.
mepage
13h ago
Seeing "ERROR: no healthy upstream" in push/pull.
mepage
13h ago
Seeing "ERROR: no healthy upstream" in push/pull operations
bhouston
13h ago
I cannot push/pull to any repos. Scared me for a second, but of course I then checked here.
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