Where is github hosted? Do they use AWS or another commercial cloud provider, or...

cormacrelf · on July 31, 2017

... It may surprise some HN readers, but AWS outages aren't the only reason other sites go down. Having multi-AZ just means you're resilient to a localised, single-AZ AWS failure. It doesn't help for the 1000 other ways your service could go down.

sattoshi · on July 31, 2017

I like how this comment has 3 replies saying different things.

I am now feeling less informed than I was after the first reply.

worldexplorer · on July 31, 2017

An ex-github employee who used to give talks on Github scaling challenges revealed they shifted from Rackspace. See yourself - https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553

worldexplorer · on July 31, 2017

They ran out of rackspace now they are on real hardware. https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553

moondev · on July 31, 2017

I believe they manage their own hardware in a datacenter

cwingrav · on July 31, 2017

Here's this from 2009. (https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast)

I says Rackspace, but 2009 is a long time ago so it could have changed.

pm90 · on July 31, 2017

They're hosted at Rackspace. I'm not sure if they're hosted on the Public Cloud or whether they have a dedicated hardware or what though.

worldexplorer · on July 31, 2017

No they shifted from Rackspace. https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553