It’s true, GitHub goes down. But this is not centralized version control land – GitHub going down does not have to stop you from committing to or deploying your code in a bind.
Our Disaster Guide that outlines some of the ways you can share and utilize your Git repository if something happens to GitHub.
I’ve posted a mirror of the Diaster Guide over at my personal blog: When GitHub Goes Down. This is a static page on a separate server that won’t go down if GitHub is having problems.
(Note that we always recommend pushing to a second remote – GitHub is just a node in the graph. The more nodes, the merrier. If you need help setting up an authenticated SSH server, feel free to ask the list.)
Rails doesn’t scale
@drnic yeah, should re-do it in something that scales better like ASP.net
@defunkt: You probably should link to the guide from the status blog. And you should link to the status guide from the page which is shown when github is down. So that people can find it easily.
@drnic: Yeah, we should switch back to Java.