GitHub's Website Remains Broken After a Data Storage System Failed Earlier Today

Github engineers are trying to repair the data storage system underpinning the code hosting website, which has been presenting users with a 'What!?' error for much of the Sunday. From a report: Depending on where you are, you may have been working on some Sunday evening programming, or getting up to speed with work on a Monday morning, using resources on GitHub.com -- and possibly failing miserably as a result of the outage. From about 4pm US West Coast time on Sunday, the website has been stuttering and spluttering. Specifically, the site is still up and serving pages -- it's just intermittently serving out-of-date files, and ignoring submitted Gists, bug reports, and posts. Sometimes, it appears to be serving a read-only cache or older backup of itself, although some fresh code pushes are coming through onto the site. From the status page, it appears a data storage system died, forcing the platform's engineers to move the dot-com's files over to another box. In the meantime, some older versions of files and repos are being served to visitors and users. 'We're continuing to work on migrating a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com,' the team said just after 5pm PT, adding in the past few minutes: 'We are continuing to repair a data storage system for GitHub.com. You may see inconsistent results during this process.'

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