CategoryOutage Report

23 Facts on GitHub Reliability in 2022: Data Study of Outages by StatusGator

23 GitHub outage facts in 2022, GitHub downtime study by StatusGator

With over 83 million users, GitHub is one of the most popular development tools out there and the third most monitored service on StatusGator.  Since so many users depend on GitHub, we wanted to analyze GitHub’s reliability in 2022 and find and uncover some interesting facts about GitHub outages.  The data behind this article For our analysis of GitHub’s reliability, we used historical...

CircleCI Outages: Have They Kept Their Promises in 2022?

CircleCI promise of reliability analysis by StatusGator

At the beginning of April 2022, a massive disruption in CircleCI caused large portions of their cloud offering to be unavailable for users worldwide. It occurred after CircleCI deployed a change to its front end and an auto-vacuum job on one of its core databases. Due to this outage, CircleCI users were unable to run tests and deploy code. After the incident, CircleCI promised to prevent these...

How Did Slack Perform a Year After the Acquisition by Salesforce

Slack outage report before after Salesforce by StatusGator

Slack is a popular messaging and communication platform used for work, study, groups, and communities. According to Techjury, more than 10 million people used Slack every day in 2022, and 43% of Fortune 100 businesses are paying for Slack subscriptions. On July 21, 2021, Salesforce completed its purchase of Slack for $27.7 billion and announced plans to make Slack an operating unit under...

What Was the Least Reliable GitHub Feature in 2022

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With over 83 million users, GitHub is one of the most popular development tools out there and the third most monitored service on StatusGator. Since so many users depend on GitHub, we wanted to analyze GitHub’s downtime over the past year and see which GitHub features (i.e., Codespaces, PRs, Actions, etc.) were the least reliable. The Data Behind This Article To evaluate which GitHub features...

The Most Reliable WordPress Hosting Providers. The Study Based on Real Outage Data

WordPress hosting provider reliable

According to data from W3Techs, more than 40% of all websites are built on WordPress. Therefore, it’s no surprise that WordPress hosting has skyrocketed in popularity recently and hosting providers have proliferated. With so many choices, it’s important to understand just how reliable WordPress hosts are, especially when it comes to downtime. Web hosting downtime can have significant consequences...

5 Biggest Outages of Q2 2020

Anything bad that can happen — will happen. This old adage applies 100% to the technology industry, where crashes and outages are far more common than the sales and marketing teams would want us to think. However, DevOps engineers that deal with infrastructure know how hard it is to ensure everything works as intended all of the time — and to configure monitoring that actually keeps track of a...