Noticed it was down for about 2 minutes, but up again. As with any big outage, I wonder how much money was lost in those 2 minutes...
OK, so in round numbers, Google makes roughly $65 billion in profit per quarter. Dividing by 90, is around $722 million per day, which is roughly $200,000 per second. 2 minutes is quite the expensive fuckup.
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#122Fine from Sydney, NSW, Australia
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#123Any bets on whether it turns out to be BGP or DNS? I'll guess DNS, it's always DNS.
Routing server config? Interesting that its intermittent, I wonder if that tells us something about the internal routing of requests.
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#125https://search.brave.com is working fine
stop. spamming. brave.
It's possible to use a non-datamining search engine while being completely bearish on crypto too. Google needs more downtime.
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#127pour one out for poor person oncall tonight.
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#128It never went down for me in Puerto Rico, wonder if the downtime was regional. It'll be interesting to read a postmortem.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wonder if it had anything to do with char broiling a few of their electricians this morning.
Say what??