Incident with Multple GitHub Services

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embedding-shape•about 3 hours ago

I've been on a somewhat binge to move a bunch of stuff to self-hosting at home. Yesterday I finally completed my self-hosted Forgejo instance at home, together with Linux, Windows (via VM) and macOS (via Mac Mini) runners/workers for CI/CD, so everything finally lives in-house (literally), instead of all source code + Actions being on GitHub but the infrastructure actually living locally.

This is probably the first time I felt vindicated with my self-hosting move literally the day after I finished the migration, very pleasant feeling. Usually it takes a month or two before I get here.

yakattak•about 3 hours ago

I moved my forge to my home, outside of a little stress getting all the containers wrangled it was pretty effortless to setup Forgejo.

I do need a good backup solution though, that’s one thing I’m missing.

shevy-java•about 3 hours ago

Interesting. I speculated not long ago that Microsoft is really taking a dive here, and other companies may look to provide better alternatives to GitHub, as one idea. Today I read your comment about self-hosting here; while that is not quite what I compared or had in mind, it is interesting to read about it, of people who go that route. Microsoft is really putting themselves into trouble in the last year or two. Some things no longer work, so much is clear here.

fishgoesblub•about 3 hours ago

At this point it'll be better to have alerts for when GitHub is online, rather than offline.

LorenDB•about 3 hours ago

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ says they are down to 88.15% uptime. Even when you consider uptime of individual components, their best is 99.78%, so two nines.

jasoncartwright•about 3 hours ago

Just cancelled my GitHub Copilot Pro+ year subscription. Removal of Opus 4.6 stung, but the repeated continued downtime makes it unusable for me. Very disappointed.

No fuss instant refund of my unused subscription (£160) appreciated.

miltonlaxer•about 3 hours ago

What will you use now?

jasoncartwright•about 2 hours ago

Claude Code

tgrowazay•about 2 hours ago

Doesn’t GitHub Copilot Pro+ only have month-to-month payment option?

Only Pro (without plus) can be paid annually for some reason.

pkaye•about 1 hour ago

Pro+ does have a annual plan but recently they paused or dropped the annual plans because they are trying to adjust the pricing model.

jasoncartwright•about 2 hours ago

I paid 390 USD for a year Pro+ subscription in November 2025.

I used all the 'Premium Requests' every month on (mainly) Opus 4.5 & 4.6. From what I've read on here it seems I was probably a rather unprofitable customer - it felt like a steal.

djeastm•about 1 hour ago

Yes, it was definitely a good value for devs using those models. I was hoping since Github Copilot was rarely talked about compared to the Anthropic/OpenAI offerings, MS would continue to subsidize it to encourage people to move over, but maybe it just got too expensive.

cjonas•about 3 hours ago

It would be wild if they dropped below the "two 9's" metric. I think they would need an additional ~16hr of outage in the 90 day rolling period.

waiwai933•about 3 hours ago

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ suggests that their combined uptime doesn't even meet 1 nine, let alone 2.

cjonas•about 3 hours ago

also I never had considered that breaking your up-time into a bunch of different components is just a strategy to make your SRE look better than it actually is. The combined up-time tells the real story (88%!). Thanks for the link

cjonas•about 3 hours ago

ya i was just doing the math on their chart for the git operations. I added up 14.93 hours combined hours, which puts them WAY lower than the reported 99.7 metric they show right next to it.

So based on their own reporting, the uptime number should be 99.31. Which means only like 6 additional hours and they'd fall below 99.0%

dankobgd•about 3 hours ago

Don't worry, status page says that it's 100% working - green color, all good. even though i can't access a static page

CamouflagedKiwi•about 2 hours ago

I wondered. We'd seen for most of today that Actions were slow to trigger, I had at least one that was just missed, it felt like something was definitely off but the status was green all day until this.

bakies•about 3 hours ago

I definitely have better uptime hosting my own gitea instance. It's faster too. It's basically a knock off GitHub. Plus with privacy concerns, I'm just happier overall. Easy setup, all I did was deploy the helm chart.

AnkerSkallebank•about 3 hours ago

Some of my jobs are completing, some are failing. Seems to be random. Kind of wish they would just fail outright, instead of running for 10 minutes and then failing.

surya2006•about 3 hours ago

what are the good alternatives available for github i find some alternative but as long as widely people use github i cant use other service right like i cant share my alternative to other developer and force him to use this for me. so i feel like i locked in even i want to move i can't

embedding-shape•about 3 hours ago

Huh? Why not? Say "My git repository is here $URL" then if they want to visit and/or clone it, they'll do that, otherwise don't, why does it matter?

Sure, if you're out after reaching the most people, gaining stars or otherwise try to attract "popularity" rather than just sharing and collaborate on code, then I'd understand what you mean. But then I'd begin with questioning your motivation first, that'll be a deeper issue than what SCM platform you use.

argee•about 3 hours ago

I moved to Gitlab a while ago. It's a whole new level of freedom not having to pay for self-hosted CI runners.

josefritzishere•about 3 hours ago

Microslop is destroying Github

buildbot•about 3 hours ago

Anyone also seeing Active Directory/Entra issues?

surya2006•about 3 hours ago

even vercel also have more downtime nowadays

tomjen3•about 3 hours ago

At this point it should almost be news when it works.

shevy-java•about 3 hours ago

Microsoft again.

I think it is time that Microsoft lets go of GitHub. They are handling it too poorly.

ChrisArchitect•about 3 hours ago

Multple 9s

linhns•about 3 hours ago

Business as usual.

0xbadcafebee•about 3 hours ago

I am this > < close to just running Gogs or Forgejo on some Hetzner boxes, quit my job, charge people for access. Why aren't there like 10 startups doing this yet? Please? I want to give you my money. Just give me a git host that doesn't suck. (All the current ones suck)

supakeen•about 3 hours ago

I mean; this is the normal mode of operation for GitHub at this point.

napolux•about 3 hours ago

0 nines.

causal•about 3 hours ago

9 nines found somewhere after the decimal point if you measure with enough precision

throwatdem12311•about 3 hours ago

Seems like they just can’t deal with the absolute deluge of AI vomit being uploaded every day.

Good riddance I hope it completely destroys them.

ossa-ma•about 3 hours ago

Seems like outages are increasingly more frequent nowadays. Obviously, this is not the best state of affairs, and developers should not be limited by services. In the meantime I've been experimenting with building third spaces for people to chill while they wait for the services they are dependent on to go back up.

The first one I've built is a little ASCII hangout for Claude @ https://clawdpenguin.com but threads like this make me want to build it for Github too.