Slack is down • Hacker News Board

Re: Slack is down

#11

Post by nodesocket » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 7:54 PM UTC

leesalminen wrote: post #2

I can't even get to status.slack.com ... I really hope that isn't on production infrastructure! GET https://slack.com/favicon.ico 503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity

Wow, that is a fail hosting your status page in the same datacenter/environment as production. Honestly, a bit surprised, since Slack has always seemed on top of things.

Re: Slack is down

#12

Post by tspike » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 7:57 PM UTC

I don't envy being their social media person right now.

Re: Slack is down

#13

Post by jusben1369 » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 7:58 PM UTC

Feels very DDoSe

Re: Slack is down

#14

Post by whalesalad » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 7:59 PM UTC

This might have something to do with it? They are Inc. magazine's company of the year: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201512/jeff-bercovici/slack-comp...

Re: Slack is down

#15

Post by bcruddy » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 7:59 PM UTC

I didn't notice an interruption on the desktop client and it's been logged in for about 7 hours now and slack.com looks fine. Interestingly enough https://status.slack.com is currently down while curling status.slack.com returns a page that says it's moved to https://status.slack.com

Re: Slack is down

#16

Post by cortesoft » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:02 PM UTC

bcruddy wrote: post #15

I didn't notice an interruption on the desktop client and it's been logged in for about 7 hours now and slack.com looks fine. Interestingly enough https://status.slack.com is currently down while curling status.slack.com returns a page that says it's moved to https://status.slack.com

You mean the http redirect to https is up but the https site is down.

Re: Slack is down

#17

Post by woodruffw » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:02 PM UTC

Just another reason for OSS projects to never trust closed (centralized!) protocols: no recourse when it (inevitably) hits the fan.

Re: Slack is down

#18

Post by rekoros » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:04 PM UTC

We see about 15% of Slack connections failing at https://sameroom.io

As an aside, we highly recommend having a contingency plan with another chat system on hot-standby. Here's more: https://sameroom.io/blog/when-team-chat-goes-down-are-you-re...

Re: Slack is down

#19

Post by skepticaluchiha » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:04 PM UTC

This is why IRC is superior.

Re: Slack is down

#20

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:04 PM UTC

ratsimihah wrote: post #10

leesalminen wrote: post #2

I can't even get to status.slack.com ... I really hope that isn't on production infrastructure! GET https://slack.com/favicon.ico 503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity

| "Back-end server is at capacity" DDoS?

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