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Re:Github experiencing major service outages across all serv... by lacosaes0 on Saturday December 22, 2012 @07:17PM (#4957960)
And this is why I use Google Code: supports git and is more reliable than Github.

It's a shame that they don't offer a paid service for closed-source software.

Re:Github experiencing major service outages across all serv... by tzaman on Saturday December 22, 2012 @07:31PM (#4957996)
Where do you live, under a rock? Of course they offer paid service for closed-source software.
Re:Github experiencing major service outages across all serv... by cmelbye on Saturday December 22, 2012 @07:55PM (#4958090)
I'm assuming by "they" he was referring to Google Code. (Wishing that Google Code offered a paid service.)
Re:Github experiencing major service outages across all serv... by stock_toaster on Saturday December 22, 2012 @07:46PM (#4958056)
Indeed. Not only do they offer a paid service and private repos, but they offer a paid self-host version as well.
Re:Github experiencing major service outages across all serv... by rplnt on Saturday December 22, 2012 @07:24PM (#4957976)
Were there any issues with Github prior to this? I don't recall any aws-like pattern. But I might have just missed it.
Re:Github experiencing major service outages across all serv... by cdelsolar on Saturday December 22, 2012 @07:26PM (#4957980)
Github is awesome, but yeah, they've been having lots of outages for a while now. A deploy based on a git fetch && git reset from Github might not be a good thing.
Re:Github experiencing major service outages across all serv... by kordless on Saturday December 22, 2012 @07:28PM (#4957984)
A few. They lost a server about 10 days ago which took down a few repos including some gists. All in its been very stable.