[HN Gopher] GitHub Pages is currently degraded
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       GitHub Pages is currently degraded
        
       Author : adityaathalye
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2023-01-19 16:44 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.githubstatus.com)
        
       | TobyTheDog123 wrote:
       | I recently had my student license expire for Github Pro and could
       | no longer publish new builds of my portfolio.
       | 
       | Had to transition to Cloudflare pages, and it works like a charm.
       | 
       | I don't entirely understand why GitHub paywalls static hosting
       | when so many other platforms can offer it for free. Different
       | business, different revenue streams, sure, but surely they have
       | the resources for it, and it's not like there aren't quality,
       | free alternatives, so I can't see it being driving factor people
       | use to sign up.
        
         | jackson1442 wrote:
         | is the repo private? I think it has to be public to use Pages
         | on a free plan.
         | 
         | edit: just confirmed, https://github.com/pricing#compare-
         | features
        
         | humanistbot wrote:
         | It is only paywalled if you want to keep your source repo
         | private, which usually isn't an issue because you're serving
         | the contents of that repo as a web site anyway.
        
         | naet wrote:
         | I host many things free on Github pages without any kind of Pro
         | account... what is being paywalled?
        
         | hk1337 wrote:
         | Since when was it pay walled? What were you having trouble with
         | because it seems to be available to me when I look at it.
        
         | TobyTheDog123 wrote:
         | edit: Yep, private repo. However the point still stands as the
         | free Cloudflare Pages plan doesn't publish your source code.
        
       | adityaathalye wrote:
       | Incident with Git Operations and Pages
       | 
       | Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to
       | investigate.
       | 
       | Jan 19, 2023 - 16:09 UTC
        
         | deathanatos wrote:
         | _And_ Actions. Actions builds are behaving ... strangely. Jobs
         | will complete all their steps, but the job will still be in
         | progress for some time, artifacts uploads are failing, etc.
        
         | colejohnson66 wrote:
         | Seems they traced it down:
         | 
         | > We are aware of an issue that impacts Actions, resulting in
         | slow or failed jobs. Root cause in a dependency is understood
         | and we are working with that team on a mitigation.
         | 
         | > Posted 1 minute ago. Jan 19, 2023 - 18:49 UTC
        
           | adityaathalye wrote:
           | Presumably the outage doesn't affect all of Actions. The
           | whole thing being down would raise a lot of flak.
           | 
           | I wonder if actions on github pages are a canary. Like, do
           | they roll out Actions changes to the pages service first, and
           | let it sit for a while before going to business-sensitive
           | tenants?
        
             | grepfru_it wrote:
             | >business-sensitive tenants
             | 
             | There is no data isolation :D
        
       | als0 wrote:
       | Getting internal server error on some Git repos too. "Git
       | Operations - Degraded"
        
         | chatmasta wrote:
         | This is even affecting the CI pipelines in our GitLab repo
         | because it has submodules at GitHub -_- probably a lesson here
        
           | jchw wrote:
           | Nothing stings like multiple SPoFs.
        
       | rubyist5eva wrote:
       | These days I'm more often surprised when GitHub is actually
       | working correctly.
        
       | funOtter wrote:
       | My GH Pages build failed after a 10 minute timeout.
        
         | adityaathalye wrote:
         | Same, twice in a row --- original build, and rebuild both timed
         | out. That's how I found my way to the status page and realized
         | it's a larger problem.
         | 
         | On the plus side, I know they enforce a timeout, and email
         | notifications about failures (I got them) are isolated from
         | this sort of degradation of pages, actions, and git operations.
        
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