Heroku was Down • Hacker News Board

Re: Heroku was Down

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Post by throwthere » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

mattwad wrote: post #49

reubano wrote: post #27

AWS is down too, this is likely the cause since Heroku runs on it. https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

AWS must be only partially down, all of it is running fine for me in us-east-1. Elastic beanstalk ftw! :)

If us-east-1 is up I have a heard time believing ANYTHING aws is down

Re: Heroku was Down

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Post by Tainnor » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 5:39 PM UTC

js4ever wrote: post #107

teagee wrote: post #11

HN is truly a market leader in status page technology

HN was also down for a moment because too much traffic

I experienced that too

Re: Heroku was Down

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Post by adamrezich » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 5:40 PM UTC

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #119

adamrezich wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what would lead you to this conclusion?

https://www.cisa.gov/shields-up

what does this have to do with Heroku? why would it be targeted? especially given that they're running on AWS?

Re: Heroku was Down

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Post by chasd00 » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 5:41 PM UTC

teagee wrote: post #11

HN is truly a market leader in status page technology

A couple of outages that have affected my client i learned about first on HN. We were able to mobilize a team and get on top of it faster than any monitoring team at the client ( a state government ). I feel like HN should invoice us haha

Re: Heroku was Down

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Post by henryaj » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 5:42 PM UTC

EU outage towards the end of last year was similarly bad, but lasted much longer. Asked Heroku for at least a refund for the dyno time when our apps were unavailable and was flatly told no.

Re: Heroku was Down

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Post by jermaustin1 » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 5:45 PM UTC

cure wrote: post #116

jermaustin1 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

.... no way. Cache freshness checks involve a lot of headers, which take up way more bandwidth than one unicode character.

if you care about cache freshness - you could set the cache header to 10 years and it never be an issue again.

Re: Heroku was Down

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Post by bovage » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

my apps are back up now.

Re: Heroku was Down

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Post by reubano » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 5:48 PM UTC

craigkerstiens wrote: post #98

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.

My 6 apps are all single dyno. Not sure if I have pre-boot enabled or not though....

Re: Heroku was Down

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 5:49 PM UTC

adamrezich wrote: post #123

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.cisa.gov/shields-up

what does this have to do with Heroku? why would it be targeted? especially given that they're running on AWS?

> Every organization in the United States is at risk from cyber threats

Heroku and AWS are organizations no?

> While there are not currently any specific credible threats to the U.S. homeland, we are mindful of the potential for the Russian government to consider escalating its destabilizing actions in ways that may impact others outside of Ukraine.

Re: Heroku was Down

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Post by somenewaccount1 » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 5:51 PM UTC

jrochkind1 wrote: post #93

reubano wrote: post #27

AWS is down too, this is likely the cause since Heroku runs on it. https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

AWS status page is all green.... Just kidding! I know the information content of the AWS status page is literally zero, it's always green!

Nah, it's just on a 12 hour delay between updates.