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And I am trying to push my edits to my team repo... worst timing ever

Don't link to them then! Link to the status page: https://status.github.com/

Flagged.

Okay!

Was just wondering... is this unusual? I guess the answer is, "kinda."

For once though, the problems I'm experiencing aren't my fault. Nice!

Sources are denying any connection to the US Government shutdown, but some suspect its NSA contractors entertaining themselves during the government downtime.

I am really sick of Getting HN posts which say, Github is down, Gmail is Down , Service X is down .

The services you mention are often crucial to the infrastructure of many startups.

So I think this is a good place to discuss, when, how and why such services go down. And what the impact is on your startup. And what you can do to keep your service or shop running during such outages.

Agreed.

https://status.github.com/

I can't even load their status page, times out like the live site.

It's something usual, and It's always by a supposed DDoS.