GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/358199381389873153

by brokenparser • 13 years ago

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shocks2• 13 years ago

A nice reminder not to put all your eggs in one basket.

kotnik• 13 years ago

It was a DDoS attack. Nothing to do with their infrastructure.

tribaal• 13 years ago

The reminder still stands.

shocks2• 13 years ago

So?

joeblau4• 13 years ago

Yeah, but everything to do with their reputation. before 8 months ago, I never recommended Bitbucket to anyone. Now I do based on the knowledge that GitHub has a loss of connection at least once a month.

The company I worked for used GitHub as the source for its build systems releases. If you can't do releases because GitHub is down a few times, I'm sure the dev/ops team will start looking elsewhere.

munimkazia• 13 years ago

It's a good thing git is a distributed system. In such cases, people can just switch to a different remote and push their branches there (with some care, of course).

maaaats3• 13 years ago

But most people never use the distributed part of git, other than having the repo on their local computer.

forlorn• 13 years ago

Sad tradition - being down once a month. Oh, come on guys!

knodi• 13 years ago

What else is new?

sergiotapia2• 13 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there very little someone can do to mitigate a DDoS attack?

Github just happens to be a very large target; BitBucket or alternatives are just as vulnerable.

jgrahamc• 13 years ago

tootie2• 13 years ago

The DDoS-proof solution is to put your repo on your own infrastructure.

sergiotapia2• 13 years ago

I agree with you, I'm just refuting the claim that this is Github fault due to their own incompetence. What can Github realistically do except mitigate? What can _anyone_ do except mitigate?

lifeisstillgood• 13 years ago

DDos-proof, just not idiot-proof

And we employee such creative idiots

:-)

joeblau4• 13 years ago

Does anyone know of a simple utility to host a remote on your local machine so that a small team can take advantage of git's DVCS in the event that a service like GitHub goes down?

sayit• 13 years ago

gitolite

lucian1900• 13 years ago

While not as nice as hg serve, there's git daemon.

shantanubala• 13 years ago

Any local machine may be problematic (if you have a dynamic IP), but git is really easy to host on a VPS or any box with a static IP -- just make sure you have everyone's SSH keys authorized (not on root unless you trust everyone with that), and use the following:

    $ git remote add origin2 user@your-ip:/path/to/repo.git

To create repo.git:

    $ mkdir repo.git  
    $ cd repo.git  
    $ git --bare init

brown9-2• 13 years ago

If your team is small enough, why not use bitbucket as a remote as a backup option?

brokenparser3• 13 years ago

Email.

No seriously, that is the simplest thing to use and punches right through any firewall, anywhere. Instead of git push, do this:

    tar cvf project.tgz .git
    mail -a project.tgz team@example.net

    Subject: Pull request #9042
    Please pull master branch from attached
    git repository, it fixes all the things.
    ^D

The other end can extract that and add the remote pointing to the local filesystem path.

Other than that, any file server will work. Apache, nginx, samba (just mount it), rsync, even *ftpd.

chromedude• 13 years ago

I love how we put this on HN. Most likely everybody who sees this already knows about it - that's why their here (they can't work)

andyhmltn• 13 years ago

If you can't work because GitHub's down, you're doing git wrong. It's a minor annoyance that I can't access the issues but it's by no means unworkable.

daigoba66• 13 years ago

I don't really understand why this is that big of a deal. Okay, I pay for github and they have downtime, that sucks. But git is designed to be distributed and your workflow can be partition tolerant. I honestly don't care if github goes down for a few hours; it doesn't stop anyone on my team from continuing to work. Now if they have days of downtime... that could be an issue and I would probably look to host repositories elsewhere.

zalew2• 13 years ago

But git is designed to be distributed and your workflow can be partition tolerant.

but issues are not distributed, as an example.

runemadsen• 13 years ago

They are.

$ git add . $ git commit -m 'fixing #23'

clubhi• 13 years ago

Someone didn't do their homework. -- Man, I'm not going to get this project done by morning. Hey I know, I'll take down github and say its checked in.

goblin89• 13 years ago

Where I work we're slowly switching to Stash lately, a self-hosted GitHub-like (sans Issues) software by Atlassian. I took a look and it seems to cost $10 one-time for teams up to 10 people. Suspiciously low price—I guess they expect customers to add Jira integration for ticket management and make more money off that.

So this makes you basically safe from DDoS-attacks, since you host it yourself, and costs much less than enterprise GitHub installation (which is $50K/year for up to 20 people). Judging by screenshots it seems pretty similar to GitHub—although, of course, closer to BitBucket. Haven't tried it myself yet.

GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

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