Seems like GitHub, Stack Overflow and Outlook have all been having problems/flakiness/short outages today. Common thread - Microsoft? Azure having issues, or some such thing?
Edit: actually, maybe it was this (Fastly) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34446883 And maybe the GH Actions issues from ~7 hrs ago vs. the more general GH, Stack Overflow and Outlook outage/flakiness from ~1 hr ago are different outages/different root cause.
Same, twice in a row --- original build, and rebuild both timed out. That's how I found my way to the status page and realized it's a larger problem.
On the plus side, I know they enforce a timeout, and email notifications about failures (I got them) are isolated from this sort of degradation of pages, actions, and git operations.
> We are aware of an issue that impacts Actions, resulting in slow or failed jobs. Root cause in a dependency is understood and we are working with that team on a mitigation.
Presumably the outage doesn't affect all of Actions. The whole thing being down would raise a lot of flak.
I wonder if actions on github pages are a canary. Like, do they roll out Actions changes to the pages service first, and let it sit for a while before going to business-sensitive tenants?
And Actions. Actions builds are behaving … strangely. Jobs will complete all their steps, but the job will still be in progress for some time, artifacts uploads are failing, etc.
I recently had my student license expire for Github Pro and could no longer publish new builds of my portfolio.
Had to transition to Cloudflare pages, and it works like a charm.
I don't entirely understand why GitHub paywalls static hosting when so many other platforms can offer it for free. Different business, different revenue streams, sure, but surely they have the resources for it, and it's not like there aren't quality, free alternatives, so I can't see it being driving factor people use to sign up.
The biggest issue I have with Cloudflare Pages, and the only barrier to my adoption, is the 25 MB per-file size limit. The per-file limit for Github Pages is 100 MB. Never really understood why the CF limit is so restrictive--a file greater than 25 MB is commonplace for static serving, and static asset servers like nginx are explicitly very good at serving such large files.
It is only paywalled if you want to keep your source repo private, which usually isn't an issue because you're serving the contents of that repo as a web site anyway.
Edit: actually, maybe it was this (Fastly) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34446883 And maybe the GH Actions issues from ~7 hrs ago vs. the more general GH, Stack Overflow and Outlook outage/flakiness from ~1 hr ago are different outages/different root cause.