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

https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=31

Scaling to human use vs automated/agentic use is a very different thing.
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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.
To be fair, that was 8 years ago. Github now has all that days and users + 8 years of data and users.