Ask HN: Why does Github go down so often?

6 points by mphillips2357 12y ago ↗ HN

It seems like Github has been going down a lot lately. Is there a particular reason that is the source of their troubles? What about Github's architecture might make it more vulnerable to downtime than other sites and services?

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zellio 12y ago ↗

I don't think they actually have a higher failure rate than other large scale web applications. They are just very open about their failures and data. http://status.github.com/ reports an uptime of 99.8% for the month. Not _fantastic_ but very very good.

mphillips2357 12y ago ↗

perhaps it just seems like it is down more because as developers we spend a lot of time using github's services