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I just launched a site on Heroku yesterday and cranked up the dynos up in anticipation of some "launch" traffic. Now, I can't log in to switch them off. Thanks EC2, you owe me $$$s
Am I expecting too much from them?
Current status: bad things are happening in the North Virginia datacenter. EC2, EBS and RDS are all down on US-east-1. Edit: Heroku, Foursquare, Quora and Reddit are all experiencing subsequent issues.
Foursquare is up now. Quora not showing the 503 anymore, Reddit still down.
Current status: bad things are happening in the North Virginia datacenter. EC2, EBS and RDS are all down on US-east-1. Edit: Heroku, Foursquare, Quora and Reddit are all experiencing subsequent issues.
Foursquare is up now. Quora not showing the 503 anymore, Reddit still down.
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As an advertiser on Reddit, you guys better be cutting me a check too :) (although my app is also dead right now so not as if the advertising would do me any good...)
Send me the link to your ad (when we come back up) and I'll comp you a day.
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If the Reddit web server admins took availability seriously they would have chosen to deploy across more than one region. Do you disagree? Why do you disagree? I'm being honest, no snark involved in my questions.
The whole point of AWS is to forget about maintaining hardware infrastructure. Amazon are the ones who should have made backups in multiple regions, and transfer the load on failure.
If that were the case, you wouldn't be presented with region and availability zone options.
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> If the Reddit web server admins took availability seriously We do. > they would have chosen to deploy across more than one region. It's far too costly to do that. We are deployed across multiple AZs, but this failure hit multiple AZs.
> but this failure hit multiple AZs. Gah! You can't always account for all the failure modes that Amazon might have.
Yes, multi-region availability on AWS is hideously expensive. However, some organisations value an availability of greater than 99.95% enough to warrant such a multi-region deployment. Clearly reddit, and many, many other AWS users, do not. This isn't a value call on my part; I definitely couldn't afford the inter-region data transfer costs, all I know is that AWS offers you the tools to deploy high availability web services.
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As an advertiser on Reddit, you guys better be cutting me a check too :) (although my app is also dead right now so not as if the advertising would do me any good...)
Send me the link to your ad (when we come back up) and I'll comp you a day.
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That is the theory, but all of our data is currently locked in the inaccessible EBS system. I'd still say Amazon is a great place for your startup, just don't use EBS.
I thought you could snapshot drives across regions and bring those EBS drives up under new instances in new regions? I have not used it all in detail yet so I don't know the practicality of this method. I think I will stick to my co-location costings I am doing for the time being. There is only one person to rely on when it all goes wrong then! Good luck getting it sorted, i know I wouldn't appreciate being up at 3am…
In theory, yes. In practice, those snapshots hurt the volume so much that it is impossible to take one in production.