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Given that in recent years Github had more downtime that your usual app, the github-powered part may be more of a liability than an asset ;).



Yeah, and GitHub Actions is also usually down more often than their other services.


It’s crazy to me how unreliable and slow the work on github actions has been. Their self hosted runners didn’t even support custom labels for like 8 months. And for at least a year you couldn’t trigger actions from pull requests from forks - even for private, in-org repos.

It’s truly been one of my worst experiences with any CI.


Although if github is down it is also possible you'll be able to do little to fix your site anyway :D


This is the reason why there should always be break-glass options to deploy to production for emergency circumstances, and well known protocols to follow when something like this is required.


Yep. All my deployments I set up so they can be run from anywhere (with the right deps and auth), even though I rarely need to use it. Makes it easier to test deployment processes too.




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