Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

GitHub Back Online After Service Outage

Posted by timothy on from the you-were-asleep-face-it dept.

The Next Web reports that GitHub — home to many open source projects — suffered (and quickly recovered from) a service outage this morning, starting around 14:00 UTC. Other than that the problem "appears to have been caused by its database server," the cause isn't clear.

5 of 55 comments (clear)

  1. I know we like to sleep late by MLBs · · Score: 5, Funny

    But describing 14:00 as morning is a bit too much.

    1. Re:I know we like to sleep late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      GitHub is based in San Francisco. The time given is UTC. 14:00 UTC is 7am in San Francisco. "Morning" is a local time reference.

  2. This is front page? srsly? by dbc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, sure, I use github. But... it goes down for a couple of hours and SlashDot panics? This isn't news.

  3. Re:Sponsoring a High Availability solution? by Mitchell314 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do what Starbucks does. Use portals to other dimensions. Why do you think they're all over the place?

    --
    I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
  4. Re:Sponsoring a High Availability solution? by Shimbo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do what Starbucks does. Use portals to other dimensions.

    I thought that was just to avoid tax.