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Comment by edoceo | Hacker News Reader

It's called GitLab. Not 100% uptime but better (and constantly improving)

It will take a long time before GitLab can even begin to regain my trust from their missing-backups outage.

Problems are to be expected. But as great as it is that they had multiple levels of backup, none of them worked. They hadn't even been tested.

We have a pretty detailed post-mortem on the timeline of events for the outage, as well as actions taken after it to prevent anything similar in the future (with links to related issues). You can check it out in https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-o...

They actually gained my trust from that outage.

If you paid for GitLab there was no missing-backups outage...

Do you have any evidence that Github does any better?

They haven't lost my data so far and they had to restore the production database at least once in their history. All circumstantial, but we'll have to wait and see.

They did not lose that much data, only a few hours.

Gitlab does not have features parity with Github. I personally also stumbled upon a bizzare bug that doesn't allow a friend to add me to any of his private repo's. Asked on IRC and nothing much came of it unfortunately.

Hiya,

Which features would you like to see in GitLab? We'd love to talk about it. You could also open a feature proposal issues in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues.

Err... you're responding to someone who very clearly said they hit a (serious for them) bug which needs fixing. That's definitely not a feature proposal. :D

Do you have data to support that claim about uptime?

GitLab's public service had a major outage a few months ago:

https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-o...

GitLab, really ?

I'm very happy I switched. I even posted here on their last outage. That was a stressful 15 minutes.

Not perfect, just working loads better for me and my teams

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