it seriously makes me lol that people are upset, or surprised, that an internet service went down for a couple of hours.  a couple of hours!  get some perspective please.  go for a walk, get a tasty burrito, try a new brand of hot sauce.<p>&quot;why didn&#x27;t they do X, Y, or Z&quot;<p>the answer in every case is it&#x27;s extremely expensive, or extremely hard to do, or both.  you want a reason, there&#x27;s the reason.  maybe they&#x27;ll fix it.  maybe they won&#x27;t.  next question.<p>make your own backups and redundant systems.  &quot;but github is so critical!&quot;  -- even more reason to have a backup.  bad shit happens in this world.  even to good people.  prepare or suffer the consequences.