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0 pointsprotomikron6y ago0 comments

GitHub's uptime is way better than GitLab. I am not really sure gitlab.com even reaches 99% availability (not to mention 99.9%).

GitLab may well be focused on providing full-stack dev-services (VCS, build-server, CI and stuff), but in the end they are a hosting company - and for hosting, uptime is one of the most important metrics.

EDIT: 99% was exaggerating, but I got so many 50Xs the last days that it was from time to time unusable.

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tristanperry6y ago

I agree that GitHub's uptime is better, but I doubt that Gitlab aren't at 99% availability - that'd mean over 14.4 minutes of downtime each day.

toupeira6y ago

We have some public Pingdom stats at http://stats.gitlab.com/4932705/history, looks like this was the first time we dipped below 99.9% this year (partial outages excluded).

But yeah, our response times have been steadily increasing and could definitely be a lot better ;-)

lbotos6y ago

You can see GitLab.com's uptime here via pingdom:

http://stats.gitlab.com/4932705/2019/11 (99.75%)

http://stats.gitlab.com/4932705/2019/10 (99.98%)

http://stats.gitlab.com/4932705/2019/09 (100%)

http://stats.gitlab.com/4932705/2019/08 (100%)

http://stats.gitlab.com/4932705/2019/07 (100%)

http://stats.gitlab.com/4932705/2019/06 (99.98%)

EDIT: I see one of my colleagues also posted here, I wasn't asked to and I'm doing it of my own accord. I assume they are as well, but I can only speak for myself.

protomikronOP6y ago

Ok, I admit that 99% was exaggerating, but you sure should make availability of gitlab.com your main focus - and you promise that for years to the users (linking at issues etc.).

Btw.: Your links are http, and the https version has `SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN` - you should check with pingdom.com maybe?

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