Re:GitHub is down
by capableweb on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:21PM
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When in doubt, and the outage is widespread it's either DNS or BGP, most likely DNS. My money is also on DNS in this case.
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I suspect you'd lose that money. Many of the recent GitHub outages were caused by database issues. Examples: https://github.blog/2023-05-03-github-availability-report-ap.... In fact last march they specifically mentioned “Database stability”: https://github.blog/2022-04-06-github-availability-report-ma...