Two hours after the initial outage, they have finally updated the Front Door status on their status page.
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#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of money and years of marketing the cloud as the responsible business decision led us here. Now that the cloud providers have vendor lock-in, few will leave, and customers will continue to wildly overpay for cloud services.
Ahh, but you forget what it used to be like. Sites used to go down all the time. Now, they go down a lot less frequently, but when they do, it's more widespread.
Not sure how the current situation is better. Being stranded with no way whatsoever to access most/all of your services sounds way more terrifying than regular issues limited to a couple of services at a time
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#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
AFD is down quite often regionally in Europe for our services. In 50%+ the cases they just don‘t report it anywhere, even if its for 2h+.
Spam those Azure tickets. If you have a CSAM, build them a nice powerpoint telling the story of all your AFD issues (that's what they are there for). > In 50%+ the cases they just don‘t report it anywhere, even if its for 2h+. I assume you mean publicly. Are you getting the service health alerts?
> CSAM
Child Sex-Abuse Material?!? Well, a nice case of acronym collision.
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#334Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good thing HN is hosted on a couple servers in a basement. Much more reliable than cloud, it seems!
Just don't use genetically identical hardware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32032235 Edit: wow, I can't believe we hadn't put https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031243 in https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights . Fixed now.
I love that "Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?" was a thing
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#335So much of Belgium runs on Azure… it's honestly baffling how many services are down, there's no resilience built into (even large) companies anymore.
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#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good thing HN is hosted on a couple servers in a basement. Much more reliable than cloud, it seems!
It was on AWS at least (for a while) in 2022. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32030400
Yeah looks like they're back on M5.
dang saying it's temporary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031136
$ dig news.ycombinator.com
; > DiG 9.10.6 > news.ycombinator.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
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#337Re: Tell HN: Azure outage
#338High availability is touted as a reason for their high prices, but I swear I read about major cloud outages far more than I experience any outages at Hetzner.
It's just the admin portal.
Nope, more than the portal. For instance, I just searched for "Azure Front Door" because I hadn't heard of it before (I now know it's a CDN), and neither the product page itself [1] nor the technical docs [2] are coming up for me.
[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/frontdoor
[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/front-door...
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#339Currently standing in a half closed supermarket because the tills are down and they cant take payments
IIRC, the grocery chain I worked for used to have an offline mode to move customers out the door. But it meant that when the system came back online, if the customers card was denied, the customer got free groceries.
I remember that banks will try to honor the transactions, even if the customer's balance/credit limit is exhausted. It doesn't apply only to some gift cards.
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#340High availability is touted as a reason for their high prices, but I swear I read about major cloud outages far more than I experience any outages at Hetzner.
It's just the admin portal.
It looks like it is just the 365 admin panels for us. Admittedly, we don't currently host any other services on Azure though.