[mindfreeze]

I am thinking when was the last time GitLab went down, I rarely or did not see downtime experience like this bad with Gitlab, I was seeing history,

https://status.gitlab.com/pages/history/

They do have some latency or slowness issues, but couldn't find like whole system down thing,

Like in one of the comments here, reminded me of 2017 incident, https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-datab... They should have improved a lot by now, but still I am curious, why such large or frequent downtimes are happening to GitHub. Is it due to making it more open for teams with Private repos, and more perks along with quarantine and WFH things

[letientai299]

The correct link for history (at of now) should be:

https://status.gitlab.com/pages/history/5b36dc6502d06804c083...

Above link result in err 500.

[humaid]

That GitLab downtime happened when we had deadlines, luckily git isn't a centralised platform so we merged our changes on a new GitHub repo we created.

Also the GitLab sluggishness reminds me of their daemon which kills the server to control memory leaks[1], although this probably isn't the main cause of the platform's slowness.

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2015/06/05/how-gitlab-uses-uni...