[cloudhead]

So when GitHub is down, how do users know to pull from your mirrors? How about push?

[scoopertrooper]

Notes in the readme? How long are you expecting one of the biggest websites in the world to be down?

[cloudhead]

A couple of hours[0]? One entire day[1]?

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/6/29/21306674/git...

[1]: https://github.blog/2018-10-30-oct21-post-incident-analysis/

[FpUser]

For some people like forever. Developers can be banned because their country/area happen to fall under US sanctions.

[berkes]

Or because a German law firm (ab)uses a US copyright directive that Github, a US company has to follow?