Github.com is down(is-it-down.com)
is-it-down.com
Github.com is down
http://is-it-down.com/github.com
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https://status.github.com/messages is a better place to keep up with news like that.
My intuition would be that status.service.com is not a useful place to look if service.com is down...
edit that's not supposed to be as snarkey as it sounds reading it back :-)
edit again The reason for this intuition is that I assume that not being able to reach service.com could indicate a DNS problem. Possibly from the comments below I need to go and read a DNS book :-)
edit that's not supposed to be as snarkey as it sounds reading it back :-)
edit again The reason for this intuition is that I assume that not being able to reach service.com could indicate a DNS problem. Possibly from the comments below I need to go and read a DNS book :-)
Most services run their `status` service on a different server entirely. It's the only possible way it could ever make sense.
My intuition is that it is. I didn't know github was really down, but had problem accessing it. Went to status.github.com and got the results, not really knowing if the address existed or not (just guessed).
These sites are often hosted away from the main service, and thus available even when problems occur.
These sites are often hosted away from the main service, and thus available even when problems occur.
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Actually, I've always checked status.service to see if Github is up, it must be hosted on a separate server.
How is this an interesting news ?
Because my comment isn't clear. This is not an interesting news. A link to the twitter status or the github status (https://status.github.com/messages) would be relevant in that case. not just some link to a third party telling us it's down. Yeah thank you. I could have notice it on my own....
Because my comment isn't clear. This is not an interesting news. A link to the twitter status or the github status (https://status.github.com/messages) would be relevant in that case. not just some link to a third party telling us it's down. Yeah thank you. I could have notice it on my own....
It's the main hosting service for most developers' source code and a large part of how many open source projects organize, communicate and work.
I guess that makes it a tiny bit more relevant than yet another post about how some mediocre entrepreneur thinks we should all live our lives.
I guess that makes it a tiny bit more relevant than yet another post about how some mediocre entrepreneur thinks we should all live our lives.
You didn't get his point. The submitted URL doesn't provide useful information, https://status.github.com/messages could have been used instead.
May be when the link was submitted the official information wasn't available. OK, then just wait for something useful because if the site is down and I'm affected I can see that myself, I don't need to read HN.
EDIT: oh, looks like the original comment was edited.
May be when the link was submitted the official information wasn't available. OK, then just wait for something useful because if the site is down and I'm affected I can see that myself, I don't need to read HN.
EDIT: oh, looks like the original comment was edited.
Well, in that case, sure.
His statement was a little broad (or even ambiguous) and I think my interpretation was the most obvious/straightforward one.
His statement was a little broad (or even ambiguous) and I think my interpretation was the most obvious/straightforward one.
> It's the main hosting service for most developers' source code
I seriously doubt that.
I seriously doubt that.
In the hacker/open source community, I'm fairly sure it is.
Among HN readers maybe, but the hacker/open source community is much more than that.
But don't you know that HN is the goto site for anyone who is serious about the technology field?
... /s
... /s
Probably because they said they are under a large ddos attack? :-?
I wonder why would someone do something like this? It's not like github is evil or anything... it's just a really cool and useful tool for coders. It helped a lot of people better their skills and knowledge. Why would someone attack it? (I am genuinely interested in this as I can't think of a reason someone would do something like this)
I wonder why would someone do something like this? It's not like github is evil or anything... it's just a really cool and useful tool for coders. It helped a lot of people better their skills and knowledge. Why would someone attack it? (I am genuinely interested in this as I can't think of a reason someone would do something like this)
No they dont. The link just says, github is down, nothing else, an interesting news would be a link to the twitter post.
You're not the first to wonder ^^
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5866047
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5866047
Because tragically, most people have all their eggs in one github shaped basket.
Git on it's own doesn't suffer from the issue of scary downtime (occasionally repo corruption...), but people have bought deeply into the value-added ecosystem that github throws over the top of it.
It's a show-stopper for them.
Git on it's own doesn't suffer from the issue of scary downtime (occasionally repo corruption...), but people have bought deeply into the value-added ecosystem that github throws over the top of it.
It's a show-stopper for them.
I have some of my code on GitHub and some on Bitbucket (for the free private repos), all of my code on my Dropbox and it's synced to 4 different machines.
However, the library I'm working with is hosted on GitHub, their doxygen is on GitHub, their wiki is on GitHub, and I don't have a local version of either of those, which is now pretty annoying.
However, the library I'm working with is hosted on GitHub, their doxygen is on GitHub, their wiki is on GitHub, and I don't have a local version of either of those, which is now pretty annoying.
Very true. This is a major irritation. I rather like Golang because of stuff like this as you can run your own local documentation server and stuff. It's just a neat self-contained package.
Docs, tests, profiler, race detector, linter, build system. Go ships with everything.
I love Go.
I love Go.
It's not, really. But I assume a good number of us have jobs that depend on it, and out of the big sites out there they are out quite frequent. And then like past threads this one will fill up with people proclaiming they're done with Github and having enough of their shit and looking for alternatives...
many people on HN will also find it useful to know that github is down for everyone (rather than just them)
It's a nice reminder not to put all your eggs in one basket.
Well, this brought me here.
Why this kind of links get always promoted? What's the point?
Genuine question.
Good question!
One reason I like them is that it's easy to pull your hair out trying to figure out why something isn't working without checking an obvious (but not entirely likely) cause.
One reason I like them is that it's easy to pull your hair out trying to figure out why something isn't working without checking an obvious (but not entirely likely) cause.
Agreed.
If you're affected you know, if you're not you don't care.
Your comment is ten minutes old, and the site is back. Not that I noticed the outage.
If you're affected you know, if you're not you don't care.
Your comment is ten minutes old, and the site is back. Not that I noticed the outage.
Wouldn't it be a good idea for Github to set up a video + sound stream from their office when these things occur? I for one would watch. Can't really work anyway (at least that's what I persuade myself to think).
GitHub's employees are massively distributed. A video + sound stream might not be as interesting as you think.
Alright, perhaps ordinary web cams on the faces of the employees involved? Just seeing the hard work and stress in their eyes would be pretty soothing. That might be an idea for any site: "We're currently down, but here are the faces in real-time of our engineers trying to fix it".
How could that possibly be a good idea for them? More distractions while they're trying to fix shit?
I'm just joking. (But who knows, maybe people would take lighter on the downtime if they could see the team working really hard to fix it).
Maybe they would, but I'm sure a bunch of people would also be wondering why they waste their time on putting on a show instead of fixing their core business :P
You might have a point there :)
I put all my personal projects on BitBucket and GitHub (and sometimes CodePlex for the comunities into that sort of thing) and just push to all of them. Never ever had both down at the same time (in fact I don't think BitBucket has gone down once since I started using it). There are multiple free git hosting sites no reason not to use them all at once.
Good thing about decentralized version control systems is that they're decentralized.
I hope github can deal with today's issue without too much trouble, but it's not a major inconvenience to me and the rest of my company's devs. We can just push and pull changes to some convenient in-house server via ssh to sync up our work.
I hope github can deal with today's issue without too much trouble, but it's not a major inconvenience to me and the rest of my company's devs. We can just push and pull changes to some convenient in-house server via ssh to sync up our work.
Bad thing about github is that people tend to use it in a non-decentralized manner. In our case, all of our deploys do a clone from github.
That's true, it's a problem when you depend on having the repository at a specific location or depend on something that's not in the repo, like wiki or issue tracking, as mentioned in the other comments.
I just wanted to express my appreciation that github being down is not as big an issue for most people as it would be if github was cvshub or svnhub. :-)
I just wanted to express my appreciation that github being down is not as big an issue for most people as it would be if github was cvshub or svnhub. :-)
"12:44 UTC We've put mitigation in place that should deflect the attack, and services are recovering. We're continuing to monitor closely." - https://status.github.com/
And it seems to be working for me again not.
And it seems to be working for me again not.
Where are these attacks coming from? Or is it just failure to keep up with increased client traffic?
I've noticed recently how frequently there are service issues with Github, many times service has been disrupted because of DDoS attacks and similar malicious activity.
I've noticed recently how frequently there are service issues with Github, many times service has been disrupted because of DDoS attacks and similar malicious activity.
@githubstatus: Working with our upstream providers to mitigate a rather large DDoS at the moment.
Why would someone go to all the trouble of making a botnet, then DDoSing GitHub ffs.
Why not? They likely already have a botnet, they didn't make it to DDoS GitHub specifically. Maybe they were annoyed with someone who was using GitHub, or they wanted to prove a point, who knows. All in all, the reason is because they can.
Maybe there is NO ddos
https://status.github.com/
Interestingly while the message at top indicates the DDOS issue the availabilities all show "Normal" for me.
Interestingly while the message at top indicates the DDOS issue the availabilities all show "Normal" for me.
They are not going to say "this person did this error", so "we have a DDOS" sounds more pro.
And we're back!
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it's back