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Re: Error 404 (Not Found)

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Post by makecheck »

soheil wrote: post #53

Funny thing is when you google Home Depot or Paramount Plus you get ads served by Google as the first result. When click on it Google then shows you a 404 page. I wonder if they'll get a refund on their Adwords campaign.

One of my pet peeves with so many services! Their obnoxious pre-ads can play flawlessly (stealing your time/eyeballs and giving them benefit), and they can still fail to give you the content you exchanged your time/eyeballs to see. Worse, they can repeatedly fail and repeatedly drill the same ads into your brain.

There ought to be a law that essentially says if ads are “paying” for content, there must be a flawless link between ads and content such that the system can tell if the content is available (or detect after the fact that something was not delivered properly). And then, based on that, it either is required to ensure the ad never plays (since the content cannot be delivered), or that the user must be compensated in some way (e.g. we see you were forced to see an ad but got nothing so we are crediting $1 to your account).

Re: Error 404 (Not Found)

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Post by corobo »

rasengan wrote: post #45
dymk wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s been like that for all the time that I can remember (at least a decade) Not super noteworthy

You're right. It's just bad.

For what it's worth I don't think you should have been flagged or even downvoted just for being wrong. Corrected yes, absolutely. Sinking to the bottom of low contrast lake was a bit much.

Flags being gigadownvotes on this site suuuuuucks now. How do people learn if nobody can correct them? Daft.

I used to have a vouch option but I guess I used it too much haha

Re: Error 404 (Not Found)

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Post by kazen44 »

mostdataisnice wrote: post #156
yupper32 wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The big three cloud platforms all have this issue of delayed status updates. Why do you think it's just GCP?

...and there's a reason for that. Automations to update the status page are rarely acceptable, since the status page statuses have legal and financial implications. Therefore, the IM usually has to update it (or tell someone to update it). But, realistically, when you get paged, you first need to figure out what exactly is wrong and at least a vague idea of why. Then, you need to tell someone to update the page. Then…

Also, in most teams, people who do external communication are different from those doing triage and troubleshooting.

Re: Error 404 (Not Found)

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Post by deathanatos »

ksajadi wrote: post #89

Half the internet is down because of a Google Cloud global issue on their load balancers, including Spotify and Etsy and GCP status is all green: https://status.cloud.google.com If you ever wondered why GCP is a distant third runner in the enterprise cloud space, here is your answer.

Azure has the same issues with updating their status page. Sometimes it never happens.

I might at least hold out some chance that Google Cloud will write an interesting PM, which is something Azure would never do IME.

Re: Error 404 (Not Found)

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Post by neom »

mixedbit wrote: post #25

Looks like perhaps an issue with Google Load Balancer. We have a load balancer in front of Google Storage Buckets, and can access resources directly from the buckets, but getting 404 when going through the load balancer.

Non-engineer here - Is there an easy way to multi-provider redundancy around this? Can you have LBs on multiple clouds and use dns to move around or something? Or does your LB have to be at the provider the app is at? Sorry if this makes no sense. :o

Re: Error 404 (Not Found)

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Post by deathanatos »

mostdataisnice wrote: post #156
yupper32 wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The big three cloud platforms all have this issue of delayed status updates. Why do you think it's just GCP?

...and there's a reason for that. Automations to update the status page are rarely acceptable, since the status page statuses have legal and financial implications. Therefore, the IM usually has to update it (or tell someone to update it). But, realistically, when you get paged, you first need to figure out what exactly is wrong and at least a vague idea of why. Then, you need to tell someone to update the page. Then…

Status pages should be driven that way, though. "legal and financial" implications and "It's not a conspiracy" is a poor excuse.

Now, I'm on Azure, but it seems like from the comments the situations are similar. So, instead of an automatically updated status page that would help engineers do their jobs, we get a status page that isn't accurate, and customers have pull teeth to get a service credit where/when one is due. And it seems like you can have the cake and eat it too here: while IANAL, a footnote in the SLA or the status page that "this is a machine estimate and not reflective of what goes into the SLA" should do it, no?

Re: Error 404 (Not Found)

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Post by NaughtyShiba »

lillecarl wrote: post #91
deberon wrote: post #8

GCP outage? Status page shows green but a bunch of sites seem down (Rocket League most importantly).

Most importantly this game I play for leisure is down!

I mean, that’s a fair point… leisure activity, whatever it is, is required for rest and to avoid burndown
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