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Re:GitHub Major Service Outage by tchaffee on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @10:35AM (#14452839)
My problem with a credit is that it never even comes close to what I'm losing in income. An ISP is an excellent example. I might get a $10 credit for 24 hours of downtime. I'm charging slightly more per hour than that... /s

Maybe switch to bitbucket or other competition for a while?

Re:GitHub Major Service Outage by scott_karana on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @05:04PM (#14455898)
If the price of the service working (or not working) is disproportionately large compared to the price of your lost business, that's a problem at your end: you needed to calculate the risk vs return for redundancy.

Eg, if your Internet costs $100/mo, but you'd lose $100/hour when it's down during business hours, buy a fallback connection from a competing ISP. ;)

Re:GitHub Major Service Outage by tchaffee on Thursday June 01, 2017 @05:12PM (#14464799)
> a competing ISP

Wow! That actually exists in some places? ;-)

Infrastructure so often becomes a monopoly. I can't pay a competing bridge service to drive to work quicker, I can't pay a competing gas company to deliver gas via different pipelines to my house. And I can't pay a competing electric company that uses different wires.

I actually am lucky enough to live in a city where there are many competing high speed ISPs. But guess what? I've paid for fallback connections in the past and when one goes down, the other goes down, so I go out to lunch and see the guys working on the wires in the cabinet down the street. The wires that both my ISPs share. I suppose I could get a satellite ISP? That latency. True redundancy for infrastructure is actually very expensive in most cases.

Re:GitHub Major Service Outage by eof on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @11:07AM (#14453094)
switched to gitlab a few weeks ago, didn't notice the outage until I saw this thread.
Re:GitHub Major Service Outage by tekism on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @11:12AM (#14453134)
I use VSTS, it's actually improved much over the years!
Re:GitHub Major Service Outage by justinclift on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @11:26AM (#14453225)
Gitea's pretty good if you just need a GitHub-like experience (eg good UX) git repo host:

https://gitea.io