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GitHub's Website Remains Broken After a Data Storage System Failed Earlier Today (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on from the outage-reports dept.

Github engineers are trying to repair the data storage system underpinning the code hosting website, which has been presenting users with a "What!?" error for much of the Sunday. From a report: Depending on where you are, you may have been working on some Sunday evening programming, or getting up to speed with work on a Monday morning, using resources on GitHub.com -- and possibly failing miserably as a result of the outage. From about 4pm US West Coast time on Sunday, the website has been stuttering and spluttering. Specifically, the site is still up and serving pages -- it's just intermittently serving out-of-date files, and ignoring submitted Gists, bug reports, and posts. Sometimes, it appears to be serving a read-only cache or older backup of itself, although some fresh code pushes are coming through onto the site. From the status page, it appears a data storage system died, forcing the platform's engineers to move the dot-com's files over to another box. In the meantime, some older versions of files and repos are being served to visitors and users. "We're continuing to work on migrating a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com," the team said just after 5pm PT, adding in the past few minutes: "We are continuing to repair a data storage system for GitHub.com. You may see inconsistent results during this process."

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  1. INb4 by darkain · · Score: 4, Funny

    INb4 "Microsoft Broke It!" - they've yet to actually take over. They're still waiting on government approval of the acquisition.

    1. Re: INb4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Actually DNS records show it already transfered to Microsoft.

  2. Microsoft by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 2

    just signed the GitHub purchase.

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  3. First day under Microsoft by SuperKendall · · Score: 2

    "All ops staff required to use pure HoloLens interface with floating console and keyboard!"

    *Github immediately convulses*

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  4. Which data storage system? by Tough+Love · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which data storage sytem would that be? Brand and model. I want to know so that I can think badly of it, or possibly of the persons who configured it, but most probably the vendor.

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    1. Re:Which data storage system? by Tough+Love · · Score: 2

      You can break the worst systems by configuring them correctly.

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  5. Re:Kind of just like how they trashed Sidekick.... by Tough+Love · · Score: 2

    The storage system heard that it would soon be acquired by Microsoft and had a heart attack :)

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  6. Re:What is there storage back end? and what VM sys by Tough+Love · · Score: 2

    A possible clue:

    Moving to bare metal and federated storage on Rackspace has brought our average Rails response time to consistently under 100ms

    But that post is ancient.

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  7. What's the problem? by skdffff · · Score: 2

    Microsoft would just run CHKDSK to fix it.

  8. Re: Use SourceForge Instead by Tough+Love · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For what it's worth, sourceforge is still here and googlecode isn't. Probably says more about Google's baby-eating culture than anything.

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