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?
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Ah, sadly I believe your personal experience is very common.
It's insane really; a company puts out a status page to say to their customers "you can trust and rely on us through that dedicated medium to know our status", and if the customers in question buy into the proposition and use it the very first thing that company does is make it so you cannot trust and rely on them through that dedicated medium. Succedding is what causes it to ultimately fail.
Status page should have stayed as undocumented features for "the little guys" behind the scene to communicate and never get into the open world where PR and marketing and decision makers can roam.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#23defcon week
But why gnu? They seem like a static site that can only be taken down by simple ddos?
The Emacs web server had to garbage collect.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#24https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01639/74/CVE-2018-5740%3A-A-fl...
What evidence do you have to support this claim?
I could sit here and just pull out random CVEs too, with as much validity.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#25Is AWS/Azure/GCE down? Remember: the cloud is someone's else computer. When it's broken, you cannot do anything
Would be big news to discover that GNU.org runs on some cloud hosting
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Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#26Is AWS/Azure/GCE down? Remember: the cloud is someone's else computer. When it's broken, you cannot do anything
So what? I would rather have Google/Amazon employees on the issue than some random DevOps dude.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#27Earlier 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's not simpler - quite the contrary. Dynamic sites can be taken down by a number of different attacks. Static sites are a much harder target.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#28Reddit is up as of this writing, although GNU.org is down.
I use Reddit is fun app and browsing fine
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#29https://status.discordapp.com states that Discord identified and resolved the problem.
Re: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
#30Is AWS/Azure/GCE down? Remember: the cloud is someone's else computer. When it's broken, you cannot do anything
If this is DNS related, which it seems to be, it has little to do with cloud based endpoints
DNS has always been subject to manipulation by malicious actors or glitches in DNS server code