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seanp2k2 on Feb 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Data Loss at GitLab

Compare with Github and their 98.935% uptime over the past month: https://status.github.com/graphs/past_month

Neither should be exclusively relied upon for business-critical services. Ask Github about their production backups and DR plans some time.

mst on Feb 2, 2017 [–]

I still remember the outage where github ran their tests against production - which started by TRUNACTEing everything before loading fixtures.

I think "everybody learns the hard way" is just one of those things with operations.

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