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IBM Cloud was down, as well as their status page

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Re: IBM Cloud was down, as well as their status page

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Post by toast0 »

dsmcr wrote: post #148
toast0 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you are expected to know who I am :) I omitted the service on purpose, but you my email is on my profile if you want to know. Apparently it was enough information for dsmcr to properly id the service though; not enough for nixgeek though, I think.

Sorry, didn't mean to put you on blast like that.

Don't worry about it. Not a problem at all. Happy to interact with people on the other side of the tickets ;)

Re: IBM Cloud was down, as well as their status page

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Post by kitteh »

About a month ago their Northern Virginia region was down. All the BGP prefixes associated with it disappeared from the internet (routes withdrawn). This time (I went to check when someone mentioned it) they kept advertising, but all traffic went nowhere once it got into their network. Curious to see if there is an RFO released.

Re: IBM Cloud was down, as well as their status page

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Post by thephyber »

rat9988 wrote: post #32
thephyber wrote: post #23

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Yes, I considered that possibility before posting.

I'm not sure what you are trying to prove with your comment then.

My top-level comment was trying to ask for any evidence whether the downtime was related to a wider network issue (eg. BGP, backbone) or if it was specific to (part of) the IBM cloud.

The link was just a data point, not evidence of anything in particular.

Re: IBM Cloud was down, as well as their status page

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Post by dsmcr »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #53

So what are HNers using IBM Cloud for and where do you see that it has an edge over AWS offerings (where an overlap exists, obviously)? (I figure either you’re in devops and you are putting out fires too busy to read this thread or you’re not and your work is halted because of the incident so you might have time to read and reply ;)

FWIW - IBM Cloud today has basically no benefit over AWS, Azure or GCE or even against some of the smaller regional players like AliCloud. The notable exception would be if you need to run a bare metal solution and leverage their free backbone which is a pretty narrow use case these days. The main selling point previously was to stand up your own VMware environment but even that came with a laundry list of caveats (unsupported hardware, limited VLANs, non-flexible IP space) that made it painful to use. Today AWS is vastly more performant, flexible, reliable and has a bunch of useful services you don't get from IBM Cloud.

Re: IBM Cloud was down, as well as their status page

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Post by atYevP »

bigiain wrote: post #110
colinbartlett wrote: post #35

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Thanks and that's a GREAT idea for some detailed analysis. I have been trying to make better use of the 5+ years of status page history stashed in the cupboard.

This is something I'd totally read. (You should headhunt the guy at BackBlaze who does their hard drive stats blog posts, and release this data analysis quarterly!)

Yev from Backblaze here -> please do not do this, we really like him.

Re: IBM Cloud was down, as well as their status page

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Post by brian_herman__ »

atYevP wrote: post #155
bigiain wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is something I'd totally read. (You should headhunt the guy at BackBlaze who does their hard drive stats blog posts, and release this data analysis quarterly!)

Yev from Backblaze here -> please do not do this, we really like him.

Yeah I think the backblaze does great work for backblaze for their hard drive report I can’t wait for him to talk about the WD SMR fiasco!

Re: IBM Cloud was down, as well as their status page

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Post by bigiain »

atYevP wrote: post #155
bigiain wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is something I'd totally read. (You should headhunt the guy at BackBlaze who does their hard drive stats blog posts, and release this data analysis quarterly!)

Yev from Backblaze here -> please do not do this, we really like him.

How about:

(You should contact the guy at BackBlaze who does their hard drive stats blog posts, and pay him to do this for you as a side hustle - and release this data analysis quarterly!)

:-)

Re: IBM Cloud was down, as well as their status page

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Post by fieldmarshal »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #53

So what are HNers using IBM Cloud for and where do you see that it has an edge over AWS offerings (where an overlap exists, obviously)? (I figure either you’re in devops and you are putting out fires too busy to read this thread or you’re not and your work is halted because of the incident so you might have time to read and reply ;)

We have been leasing bare metal servers since the pre-IBM Softlayer days.

Over the past few years we have experienced quite a few network-related outages. Not usually to this extent, more generally a failure of some piece of network gear that takes out either backend or frontend traffic from a particular data center. We seriously priced out a migration to another provider recently, but in the end what held us back was cross-AZ transfer costs on AWS. We found it would raise our operating costs significantly, so the matter was dropped.

We were much happier with the service and support we received prior to the IBM acquisition.

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