Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you?

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Post by hdragomir » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 9:14 PM UTC

Nope. Our failovers are on self hosted servers, where the core of each app lives anyway.

Re: Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you?

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Post by henryrose » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 9:17 PM UTC

Our test environments aren't available.

Re: Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you?

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Post by mindcrime » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 9:18 PM UTC

How has it affected me? My posting of the Wikipedia page on "Fallacies of Distributed Computing" made it to #2 on HN, and I got a big karma bump; and wasted more time than usual on HN today, discussing this stuff.

Also, since Quora was down, I didn't get my usual quota of Quora surfing in.

Otherwise, today has been "business as usual." :-)

Re: Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you?

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Post by freerobby » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 9:22 PM UTC

We're temporarily down with no permanent damage. But we have no way to relay that info to our customers because everything, including our users' email addresses, is inaccessible. Big oversight that I will be fixing as soon as we're back up.

It feels absolutely terrible to only be able to assure customers that their data is safe _after_ they write a panicked email asking if their data is gone.

Re: Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you?

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Post by adpowers » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 9:22 PM UTC

My website and e-mail have been down for 12 hours and counting. Alas, my only instance that has survived this is running a website that is still under development.

Re: Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you?

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Post by bdclimber14 » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 9:37 PM UTC

dpcan wrote: post #15

bdclimber14 wrote: post #9

I run my main startup on Heroku, so OrangeSlyce.com has been completely down all day.

Might as well get some good out of it.... please describe what your service is.

Sadly, I almost replied "just check out the website." I made a site for graphic design students to find freelance gigs that are posted by local small businesses who need cheap, small amounts of design work done. Thankfully this hasn't been very big, and mostly just a side project recently, so not too many users are being affected.

Re: Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you?

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Post by gcr » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 9:53 PM UTC

My site still works! (Thanks, prgmr ;))

Re: Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you?

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Post by triviatise » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 10:31 PM UTC

triviatise.com is down, but we just ended our last giveaway to close out our alpha on the 15th so the impact is minimal. We are working to figure out what a good backup plan to heroku is. Im sure a lot of other people (including heroku ) are doing the same.

Re: Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you?

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Post by martingordon » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 10:37 PM UTC

I was hosting a client's app on Heroku and they had a big pitch today during which they weren't able to show the site. Really, really horrible timing.

Re: Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you?

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Post by dholowiski » Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 10:42 PM UTC

martingordon wrote: post #29

I was hosting a client's app on Heroku and they had a big pitch today during which they weren't able to show the site. Really, really horrible timing.

Yikes. That's how I feel... Yesterday I explained how my site, although very ugly, could handle all the traffic you could throw at it and more. Today, it can't handle any.