Hmm, my sites are still up. They are at us-east-1d. Keeping fingers crossed.
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#32We learnt our lesson the hard way after the great AWScalypse of Apr 2011. The lesson: Use n>1 hosting companies (even if one of them promises a-z-multiregion-distributed-fault-tolerant-back-up)
how are you quickly failing over from one to another?
If your site has little dependency among itself, then you can use DNS round robin to include IP's from all hosting companies.
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#33Does anyone else find it strange that two Heroku posts made the frontpage considerably (in relative terms, obviously) earlier than "EC2 down"? I would think EC2 is a more common denominator for people, but maybe other hosts have better redundancy and thus there wasn't an immediate awareness?
Or am I just overly curious and it's really just that some Heroku clients happened to notice before an at-large EC2 customer?
edit: I don't mean to imply a conspiracy of some sort, upon a reread. I merely am curious if there are just that many Heroku users in particular on HN or somesuch?
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
They keep saying it happened in a single availability zone when I saw frantic tweets from people in 1A, 1C and 1D.
Everyone's A zone is different. So I could say A is down while someone else is saying B, and we could be talking about the exact same zone. It makes it difficult to say if it is more widespread or not.
You can match them up through a quirk in one of the APIs.
http://alestic.com/2009/07/ec2-availability-zones
My us-east-1a is the affected zone, which is 3a98bf7d-126d-411a-a612-3a57a62dc688 using the incantation on the site.
(Oh, and to note: my us-east-1a was also the affected zone during the massive outage last year, and I believe I remember another outage sometime between then and now. I almost feel like every Amazon outage affects my zone. I kind of wonder if that availability zone just sucks ;P.)
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#35Does anyone else find it strange that two Heroku posts made the frontpage considerably (in relative terms, obviously) earlier than "EC2 down"? I would think EC2 is a more common denominator for people, but maybe other hosts have better redundancy and thus there wasn't an immediate awareness? Or am I just overly curious and it's really just that some Heroku clients happened to notice before an at-large EC2 customer? e…
It is probably because of the large Heroku outage and post here just the other day, and people are trying to point out that they are down again as that is more dramatic than a normal AWS disruption.
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#36Still having problems staring a few instances.
We just started a campaign so i thought there were performance issues with our application so it took me a while to look for ec2 issues. sigh
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
ironically, we moved away from linode last month because they kept doing maintenance and turning off our machines without telling us
really? I've noticed an increase in maintenance with Linode recently but they've always been really great with notice, so much so I am consistently surprised. If there is ever going to be planned downtime I've got an email at least a week in advance and it gives me the option to migrate my linode to another server at my own convenience if their schedule isn't compatible with my needs. Do you not get these emails and…
For the scheduled ones, I think I did receive some prior notice, I might have gotten particularly unlucky with a bunch of emergency/network/etc. maintenance affecting many of my servers simultaneously.
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#38I wonder if the power outage here has anything to do with this - http://www.dom.com/storm-center/dominion-electric-outage-map...
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#39This is why http://AppFog.com/ is investing in multiple IaaS and is not being hit nearly as hard. You can still sign up and even create apps.
On the other hand they don't have any prices listed, and their blog is down "Error establishing a database connection". This doesn't exactly inspire to go to them for hosting.
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