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by aaomidi 746 days ago
Because how often is the internet down?

If you’re in an office you’re absolutely supposed to be getting multiple upstream connections.

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The local internet connection is a necessary but not sufficient part of accessing any hosted service. More importantly, the service itself has to be online.
Most of these SaaS services have enough availability to practically not be a problem.
In the last year, if I accumulate all service outages at GitHub and at my office’s ISP, I think GitHub was out of reach for more than a couple of hours five times.
GitHub is an anomaly tbh.
GitHub has a satisfying uptime, compared.

Most incidents were related to local Internet.

Regardless, I didn't take a break until GitHub came back.

I shouldn't have to take a break from planning just because Jira is down.