GitHub Back Online After Service Outage 55
The Next Web reports that GitHub — home to many open source projects — suffered (and quickly recovered from) a service outage this morning, starting around 14:00 UTC. Other than that the problem "appears to have been caused by its database server," the cause isn't clear.
Re:This is front page? srsly? (Score:4, Interesting)
It's news. I've corporate partners who rely heavily on gitbub.com for access to their open source tools and even for their corporate git repositories, since they're more reliable than almost any in-house source code repository I've dealt with. This especially includes the hand-built, written by the CIO source control systems, that are surprisingly common in startups before they mature. I know companies whose automated software continuous build environments because of this, so it's certainly news.