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Re: Google Cloud Is Down

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Post by pmlnr »

nabla9 wrote: post #180
colinbartlett wrote: post #31

Google Cloud is the number 4 most monitored status page on StatusGator and Google Apps is number 12. In addition, at least 20 other services we monitor seemingly depend on Google Cloud because they all posted issues as soon as Google went down. It's always interesting to see these outages at large cloud providers spider out across the rest of the internet, a lot of the world depends on Google to stay up.

This feels like 80's. When the mainframe is down terminals are useless.

Yep. The cloud is just a lot of cheap hardware acting together as a shitty mainframe.

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Post by zepolen »

kazen44 wrote: post #55
numbsafari wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely the case. Neither are super great at this. One issue is that issues that may 100% impact individual clients may only impact a vanishingly small amount of their overall service load. That mismatch between customer and provider experience is one of the ugly aspects of public cloud providers.

Also, it's one which gets hugely understated when people "move to the cloud". especially if you use your bussiness for B2B services. Stuff like this could make you loose your bussiness, especially if some entity like google doesn't communicate and as a result, you do not have a answer for your own customers. Medium sized private cloud providers are a lot better at this, considering the communication lines are a lot s…

On the flip side - a customer is more willing to be understanding if 'Google is down' instead of 'our server is down'.

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Post by chrisseaton »

revvx wrote: post #174
avocado4 wrote: post #112

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One click on this link and it instantly starts streaming your webcam footage to everyone in the chat room.

This is weird, I had Zoom installed a long time ago but uninstalled according to their instructions [1]. I'm a macOS user. As soon as I clicked that link, the client downloaded a PKG file, installed itself and launched itself without asking me if I wanted to share my camera or audio. I uninstalled according to their instructions again, searched for all " zoom " files in my disk and rebooted. This leads me to believe…

Do you have auto-run enabled for downloaded files?

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

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Post by TeMPOraL »

hinkley wrote: post #170
TeMPOraL wrote: post #143

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Solutions based on third-party butts have essentially two modes: the usual, where everything is smooth, and the bad one, where nothing works and you're shit out of luck - you can't get to your data anymore, because it's in my butt, accessible only through that butt, and arguably not even your data. With on-prem solutions, you can at least access the physical servers and get your data out to carry on with your day whi…

Took me a second. I didn’t know the cloud-to-butt translator worked on comments too. I forgot that was even a thing.

I keep forgetting that I have it on, my brain treats the two words as identical at this point. The translator has this property, which I also tend to forget about, that it will substitute words in your HN comment if you edit it.

But yeah, it's still a thing, and the message behind it isn't any less current.

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Post by XCSme »

AaronFriel wrote: post #184
PerfectElement wrote: post #46

Just 2 weeks after I migrated a DB cluster from Azure to Google Cloud thinking things would get better.

Just remember that "better" can be entirely based on when you pick the starting and ending points of your graph ;)

It's just like the stock market.

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

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Post by boulos »

biohax2015 wrote: post #177

Does anyone know if this is a regional or global outage? I can see my GKE clusters in one region but not in another, so I am guessing it's the former. Looks like we'll need a cluster in each region going forward...

To help others: which two regions?

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

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Post by revvx »

narak wrote: post #189
revvx wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is weird, I had Zoom installed a long time ago but uninstalled according to their instructions [1]. I'm a macOS user. As soon as I clicked that link, the client downloaded a PKG file, installed itself and launched itself without asking me if I wanted to share my camera or audio. I uninstalled according to their instructions again, searched for all " zoom " files in my disk and rebooted. This leads me to believe…

Don't be sorry, same thing happened to me just now and I'm trying to figure out how they are installing locally from a URL click with no further input from me. edit: Found this thread with details but no resolution it seems: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/358651/unable-to-c...

I think I found out: there's a daemon process that I somehow missed the first time around.

Deleting the .app file as instructed is not enough.

This StackExchange reply [1] showed me how to solve it, at least on macOS.

[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/358651/unable-to-c...

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

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Post by bmelton »

PerfectElement wrote: post #173
k__ wrote: post #127

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How come?

The small bare metal hosting company I use for some projects hardly goes down, and when there is an issue, I can actually get a human being on the phone in 2 minutes. Plus, a bare metal server with tons of RAM costs less than a small VM on the big cloud providers.

Care to name names? I've been looking for a small, cheap failover for a moderately low traffic app.
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