[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)
(HTM) web link (www.githubstatus.com)
(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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