alt Hacker NewsI have sympathy for some of the GitHub complaints. otoh just went to try to signup for Codeberg and it's down ... 95% uptime over the last 2 weeks?
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One can always host Forgejo themselves if a service level has to be kept under control. With Github that’s not even an option.
I would even consider that moving everything from one single point of failure to an other is not the brightest move.
There have been complaints about it on Reddit as well. I registered an account recently and to me the annoying thing is the constant "making sure you are not a bot" check. For now I see no reason to migrate, but I do admit Forgejo looks very interesting to self-host.
I mean, they're battling with DDoS all the time. I follow their account on Mastodon, and they're pretty open about it.
I believe the correct question is "Why they are getting DDoSed this much if they are not something important?"
For anyone who wants to follow: https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg
Even their status page is under attack. Sorry for my French, but WTF?
Just a reminder, Codeberg is for open source projects only, and maybe some dotfiles and such. Its on their frontpage and in their TOS.
99.95 from something I use to do work is non negotiable.
GitHub uptime isn't perfect either. You will notice these outages from time to time if your employer is using it for more than just "store some git repos", e.g. using GHA for builds and deploys, packages etc.
Because they are Codeberg I'm betting they have a philosophical aversion to using a cloud based ddos protection service like Cloudflare. Sadly the problem is that noone has come up with any other type of solution that actually works.
Average big tech alternative. Doesn’t solve your problems, doesn’t scale, terrible UX, but at least it’s run by fanatics.