Bye Bye Github - Hackdot

Re:Bye Bye Github by bugs on Sunday February 07, 2010 @08:42PM (#1108669)

Although his example for cancelling github is a bit silly (Not deploying due to its downtime even though he could have set up a local repository).

His gripe with a paid service being down and unreliable and his action of cancelling is perfectly reasonable if he runs a business and wants a set uptime.

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Re:Bye Bye Github by pyre on Monday February 08, 2010 @12:27AM (#1109078)

I think the point is that his alternatives don't guarantee 100% uptime either so the whole thing just comes off as some sort of tantrum.

  him: I needed to deploy but Github was down! Screw
       them! I'm going hosting company X instead.
   me: Does hosting company X guarantee that they will
       never be down when you want to deploy?
  him: ...

At least that's how it comes off to me. If those other hosting companies really do provide him with what he needs better than Github does, then more power to him, but I seriously doubt that they do at the price point they have set.

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Re:Bye Bye Github by vidarh on Monday February 08, 2010 @06:34AM (#1109517)

Even if they do "guarantee" it, what happens if they fail to meet their guarantee? Most likely they'll credit him with a refund of his hosting fees for the downtime, or if he's really lucky some small multiple of it...

Words are cheap, especially in the world of typical SLAs.

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