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Another Major GitHub Outage – This Is Not Good For Its $100M Enterprise Push

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http://techcrunch.com – GitHub had another outage this afternoon. This is getting old. How can GitHub be taken seriously in the enterprise with these kinds of outages? GitHub started showing exceptions at 3:14 PST. By 3:20, GitHub announced on its status page that a database spike caused the service to have a major outage. It makes no difference if GitHub for Enterprise runs on-premise. With this kind of outage, credibility is a question mark. GitHub has suffered a number of major outages in the past few months. The service went down in September, October, and December. It’s getting to the point that its c (IT news)

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