Github Went Down For Two Hours On Monday But Has Since Recovered

GitHub, the Microsoft-owned software development and source-code management platform, suffered a massive outage on Monday. According to reports, the site remained inaccessible for hours, with thousands of users unable to log on. The company, however, has since resolved the issue. Late last evening, the company reported that all issues have been resolved and the site was back up once again.

Everything operating normally. https://t.co/wOysJK7sew

In a deal that send shockwaves through FOSS proponents the world over, Microsoft in 2018 acquired Github for a whopping $7.5 billion. However, as it turned out, Microsoft was not the only party interested in buying Github. The head of Google’s cloud business, Diane Green, later revealed that the search giant was also in the race to buy the open source code repository.