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As I typed that out I remembered that they handle DNS, load balancing, and databases, so I guess any one of them.
I've only ever used heroku for free tier level personal projects, but as I understand it they use AWS to do the actual hosting. I can understand an outage affecting their deployment process, but what could cause running servers to go down? As I typed that out I remembered that they handle DNS, load balancing, and databases, so I guess any one of them.
It appears to only be affecting apps that have multiple dynos. While Heroku is busy fixing the issue if you scale your app to a single dyno (assuming it can handle the traffic) it should restore availability.
We also had single-dyno apps affected.
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AWS status page is up, but going VERY slow, and says no issues.
I still don't get why they use images Instead of unicode: https://www.htmlsymbols.xyz/unicode/U%2b2705
/s
But, this really happened in 2017.
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Ahh... were you sleeping in 2021? They went down in September, November, and December. Probably some other times earlier in the year as well. I stopped keeping track at how bad their service is because of how bad AWS's service is.
My app didn't go down during any of those times. I recall at least one of them I could not deploy new versions of my app though, which is pretty bad. I don't believe I had any downtime at all due to heroku platform outages in 2021. i believe you if you say you did though! This particular outage definitely seems to be of a rare level of severity.
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I still don't get why they use images Instead of unicode: https://www.htmlsymbols.xyz/unicode/U%2b2705
if the image tag is drawn dynamically then it is actually probably less bandwidth than the unicode character since the image can be cached at multiple locations including the browser.
Cache freshness checks involve a lot of headers, which take up way more bandwidth than one unicode character.
All our apps are down as well. And it seems (and I really have to almost laugh here) that https://status.heroku.com no longer loads.
Of course, they won't. If they host is on someone else's then that might look bad (tacitly saying that a competitor is reliable and might be up when they are down) and if they hive off an extra copy of some of their infrastructure there will still be single points of failure either accidentally, by human error (someone somehow messing up both segments at once), or by design (possibly through management trying to save pennies when they noticed this extra bit of infrastructure on the balance sheet).
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My app didn't go down during any of those times. I recall at least one of them I could not deploy new versions of my app though, which is pretty bad. I don't believe I had any downtime at all due to heroku platform outages in 2021. i believe you if you say you did though! This particular outage definitely seems to be of a rare level of severity.
Their authentication system completely broke I think in January...for hours.
Didn't bring my deployed app down though! No user-facing outage for me.
This time my app was down for about 35 minutes.
So... what are the chances this is related to a cyber attack from Russia? Also our apps are down
what would lead you to this conclusion?
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Their authentication system completely broke I think in January...for hours.
Oh right, I remember that now. Didn't bring my deployed app down though! No user-facing outage for me. This time my app was down for about 35 minutes.