Error handling in Node sucks. I hope they can find what is causing this.
Every Nodejitsu app is down
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#12https://twitter.com/nodejitsu/status/321775765962240000
"Sorry for the inconveniences, we found that our database provider (@IrisCouch) is down at the moment, we are bringing up the cloud."
I'm pretty surprised to learn that they don't run their own databases (and also that their database is CouchDB, but maybe I'm just old fashioned).
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#13So far its uptime seems comparable to other PaaS services. Curious what opinions HNers have on this is, though: How important is it to have pretty downtime screens, or nothing at all? In this case it's 404-ing, which is inaccurate. Would it be better to just not respond to the HTTP request than to show this? Also have other PaaS services like Heroku got these messages right?
I frankly quite hate it, and no.
Depending on the kind of error they're experiencing, Heroku will show a quite unhelpful and generic "Application is down" screen.
I know they're limited in what they can show back given a certain kind of error but it's real crappy to let your users or clients hung out to dry.
It's especially loathsome with clients because it's indistinguishable from you fucking up. I do wish they showed a "Oh hello we're having a spot of trouble. Please hang tight" instead. Mad points for letting you style the page to match your site.
Of course, as a service provider this would not quite be something you spend a lot of time thinking about or optimizing for.
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#14lolololol. Not surprising considering they're a bunch of hipster amateurs.
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#15Nodejitsu is incredibly unreliable. I use them only because they are so cheap and quick. Anything of value should not be hosted on Nodejitsu. This disappoints me greatly as Nodejitsu is a company i want to love.
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#16Error handling in Node sucks. I hope they can find what is causing this.
This problem has nothing to do with node. It is a problem with a hosting service for node.
JavaScript has exceptions. It has booleans. It has integers. What more do you need to handle an error?
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#17We are working on a major outage from our database provider, so, please, keep calm :) Our platform will be up asap.
Check http://twitter.com/nodejitsu for updates.
Sorry for the inconveniences and thanks for your patience.
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#18http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rk8FQr-...
"we are community leaders in the node.js project."
I pity the node.js community if this is what they consider leadership.
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#19Nodejitsu is incredibly unreliable. I use them only because they are so cheap and quick. Anything of value should not be hosted on Nodejitsu. This disappoints me greatly as Nodejitsu is a company i want to love.
Can you please give some details because that's quite a damning statement for a company that professes to be build on enterprise ready infrastructure. I would default to be skeptical of statements like yours, everyone has downtime.
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#20Error handling in Node sucks. I hope they can find what is causing this.
This problem has nothing to do with node. It is a problem with a hosting service for node. JavaScript has exceptions. It has booleans. It has integers. What more do you need to handle an error?
"JavaScript has exceptions"
But I miss those colorful exceptions like javax.management.modelmbean.InvalidTargetObjectTypeException :P