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First time I've ever seen it down, I guess there's a first for everything. Now I understand why many people are very paranoid when it comes to taking backups.

Is it worth backing up my GitHub repos somewhere else? What do other people use as an alternative source of truth for their code?

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GitHub is down all the god damn time.

At this point, I consider it the least reliable hosting service available. But, to be fair, it's also the one with the most traffic.

We moved to github from Bitbucket because the latter was not up to scratch at all. Even with this issue I'm not planning to move back.

Okay, true, Atlassian cloud products are way worse, even when they work. I wouldn't consider them a serious SaaS player in the slightest.

Atlassian does SaaS like Java does terseness.

Not sure if you were being sarcastic but Github goes down quite often :)

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=github+down

https://downdetector.com/status/github/archive/2020/06, This verifies your data as well, but if you look at the data from Jan '20 to July '19(massive issues in july), there have been more outages. Keep in mind that the stats don't include small outages that last upwards of 2 mins or are region specific. My team and I have been encountering a lot of two min or less kind(usually fixes on a refresh 10 seconds latter). It gets annoying after a while. Its weird given that github hasn't adjusted to quarantine effect.

I think this implied that it never was down for him before when it was reported to be down. Which is exactly my experience, too. I've seen a lot of GH down posts here - it never was for me. Now it's the same.

Possibly region/cluster specific? Not loading for me from Denmark.

I'd consider mirroring to another provider like gitlab.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/repositor...

The code is not the problem; you and other collaborators have a copy of the code locally. It's the fact that I can't submit or update PRs anymore and collaborate with my colleagues that's annoying, and no backup can fix that.

You can always set up a «git fetch» cronjon on your dev laptop/rpi/vps/toaster. I had one on all repos in my ~/git directory to ensure I have up-to-date repos without manual intervention.

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