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Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
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Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#12defcon week
But why gnu? They seem like a static site that can only be taken down by simple ddos?
Why does the fact that the site is static make it easier to take down by a simple ddos?
I have a static website at https://alexandreviau.net/. It sits behind AWS CloudFront. Good luck taking it down.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty unstable here, it loads but all the user specific pages return 'error code: 503'
And their status page shows all green... https://reddit.statuspage.io/
Although I like the concept at this point status pages are very disappointing to me, between those that stay green when everything is failing because they're not updated properly, those that stay green because "it was a localized partial failure only" even though the whole thing breaks (hi aws !), ... Sure some are reliable, but enough aren't that it feels like you can't trust them.
You can't look at the status page and believe what it says, so you go and ask people anyway (on irc, reddit, hnews, whatever community you like). Meaning that page might as well not have existed.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#14I'm not the best at interpreting this map[0] but seems that something is going on? [0] http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&...
What's the significance of Poland in the output? A tracking thing?
I noticed problems with Reddit earlier, too.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#15defcon week
lol, no
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#16Is AWS/Azure/GCE down?
Remember: the cloud is someone's else computer. When it's broken, you cannot do anything
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
And their status page shows all green... https://reddit.statuspage.io/
Although I like the concept at this point status pages are very disappointing to me, between those that stay green when everything is failing because they're not updated properly, those that stay green because "it was a localized partial failure only" even though the whole thing breaks (hi aws !), ... Sure some are reliable, but enough aren't that it feels like you can't trust them. You can't look at the status page…
Couldn’t agree more. I pushed for one to be implemented at my last job (api) as I felt it was ridiculous that we didn’t have a means to communicate downtime, outages, issues.
Initially the status page worked. But as more and more people subscribed to it, it became a bigger issue, to issue an alert.
And unfortunately an issue couldn’t be raised only to those it was relevant for.
All this lead to was, not updating the status page and thus it becoming a useless tool to determine if an issue was occurring.
Back to Twitter...
I feel the product needs a lot work in practice, and possibly in implementation and training.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#18Reddit is up as of this writing, although GNU.org is down.
Up in Europe (Paris) at 5:08 local time.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
But why gnu? They seem like a static site that can only be taken down by simple ddos?
Why does the fact that the site is static make it easier to take down by a simple ddos? I have a static website at https://alexandreviau.net/ . It sits behind AWS CloudFront. Good luck taking it down.
It will DDoS your wallet with CloudFront charges which is even worse.
They just need to hit you over a longer time scale and avoid making obvious peaks so that you can’t ask for the DDoS refund.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
But why gnu? They seem like a static site that can only be taken down by simple ddos?
Why does the fact that the site is static make it easier to take down by a simple ddos? I have a static website at https://alexandreviau.net/ . It sits behind AWS CloudFront. Good luck taking it down.
That's not what the parent said, they just said that the only thing that can take down GNU.org is DDoS