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		zellio on Sept 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why does Github go down so often? I don't think they actually have a higher failure rate than other large scale web applications. They are just very open about their failures and data. http://status.github.com/ reports an uptime of 99.8% for the month. Not _fantastic_ but very very good.

mphillips2357 on Sept 18, 2013 [–]

perhaps it just seems like it is down more because as developers we spend a lot of time using github's services

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