GitHub's website remains broken after a data storage system failed several hours ago.
Depending on where you are, you may have been working
on some Sunday evening programming, or getting up to speed with work on
a Monday morning, using resources on GitHub.com – and possibly failing
miserably as a result of the outage.
From about 4pm US West Coast time on Sunday (2300
UTC), the website has been stuttering and spluttering. Specifically, the
site is still up and serving pages – it's just intermittently serving
out-of-date files, and ignoring submitted Gists, bug reports, pushes,
and posts. Sometimes, it appears to be serving a read-only cache or
older backup of itself, although some fresh code pushes are coming
through onto the site.
Repairs
From the status page,
it appears a data storage system died, forcing the platform's engineers
to move the dot-com's files over to another box. In the meantime, some
older versions of repos are being served to visitors and users.
"We're continuing to work on migrating a data storage
system in order to restore access to GitHub.com," the team said just
after 5pm PT, adding in the past few minutes: "We are continuing to
repair a data storage system for GitHub.com. You may see inconsistent
results during this process."
In this vulture's experience this evening, the
backend git services are still working. It's just the website that's
frozen. Some people have complained they can't log in, or that branches
have gone missing, and so on.
Right now, we're seeing
scores of complaints about the site being down on Twitter – including
quite a few upset coders in Japan, where at time of writing is late
Monday morning. Nice start to the week.
Confusion
Judging by the gripes, there's no obvious way to tell
the site is borked, unless you look for the status page or realize
something's up after the tenth attempt to submit work to the dot-com
fails.
"Can you restore your service already?" software dev Saishav Agarwal pleaded
to GitHub. "And please let users know when such issues are discovered!
An email would be sufficient. Just wasted a precious hour."
Microsoft hopes to buy San Francisco-based GitHub for $7.5bn (£5.7bn). We'll update this story when, fingers crossed, GitHub repairs itself. ®
Updated to add at 0700 UTC
GitHub.com is still wonky, and will remain so for the
next couple of hours, it seems. "We are currently in the later stages
of a restore operation, with the aim of serving fully consistent data
within the next 2 hours," Team GitHub said.
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