It was pretty easy before October 2018, when Microsoft bought them:

Not saying they are doing a particular good job but its not as simple as "paying more for bigger machines" and be done with it.

13hunteo 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Scaling to human use vs automated/agentic use is a very different thing.

gbear605 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Github has had horrible uptime for years, before agentic use was a thing. The killer was Microsoft.

	▲	surajrmal an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It had uptime issues before Microsoft. They just got better at tracking and reporting after Microsoft.

Barbing 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do we know this is the predominant reason?

To be fair, that was 8 years ago. Github now has all that days and users + 8 years of data and users.