Looking forward to the postmortem.
OpenRouter is down
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#12Can someone power it off and back on again please?
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#13How can a router be down this long? I would have to reconsider using them moving forward.
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#14Been down for ~50 minutes now and there's no information other than the automated notice on their status page.
Frankly I prefer that than a green tick and "All Systems Operational"
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
>One of OpenRouter's main points is that it allows you to bypass individual AI vendors' downtimes. Only if you're using a model hosted by multiple providers (e.g. an open model).
Nope, for closed models too. Claude for example has multiple providers they work with. Google Vertex, Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic themselves all provide inference for Claude. The vast majority of models on OpenRouter (both closed and open) have multiple providers.
Interesting. I would think they would safeguard core IP from competitors.
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#17Interesting timing. I was just reading about a new self-hosted router [1] today. Now I’ll definitely need to check it out.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
>One of OpenRouter's main points is that it allows you to bypass individual AI vendors' downtimes. Only if you're using a model hosted by multiple providers (e.g. an open model).
Nope, for closed models too. Claude for example has multiple providers they work with. Google Vertex, Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic themselves all provide inference for Claude. The vast majority of models on OpenRouter (both closed and open) have multiple providers.
Also you might be fine with routing to a different model.
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#19One of OpenRouter's main points is that it allows you to bypass individual AI vendors' downtimes. I was considering using it for an uptime-critical project of mine. The post-mortem will be worth watching.
OpenRouter: eliminating Single Points of Failure… by introducing a beautifully centralized one.
Their uptime is still infinitely better than any single provider though.