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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

#21

How sure are we that this outage is limited to IBM cloud? Pindom[1] had a spike of website outages from 11k => 27k. [1] https://livemap.pingdom.com/

It's most likely customers of IBM cloud whose systems rely on something hosted there and are thus down as well.

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

#23

How sure are we that this outage is limited to IBM cloud? Pindom[1] had a spike of website outages from 11k => 27k. [1] https://livemap.pingdom.com/

It's most likely customers of IBM cloud whose systems rely on something hosted there and are thus down as well.

Yes, I considered that possibility before posting.

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

#24
Honest slightly cynical question: most probably someone inside the responsible team said some day that it would be very stupid to host the status page inside the same infrastructure being monitored, but they were probably ignored... what should that person do now? Say "toldya!" out loud in the postmortem meeting or simply shut up and move on because reality is that we are hired to do some stupid task and not to think for ourselves?

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

#25
post #11

I generally do everything on AWS or GCP, with a little Azure sometimes for personal projects. In what world does IBM beat one of those three in anything? Generally curious - how they are able to stay competitive?

Their bare metal cloud offering (SoftLayer acquisition) was actually pretty good whenever I used it about 4 years ago. Wasn’t the most intuitive API or UI but you could get a bare metal server anywhere in the world in a few minutes.

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

#26

All of Broadcastify's audio servers (hosted with Softlayer in their Dallas datacenter) are completely unreachable and down. I'm going to wait a bit to see if we get a status update, otherwise we'll be spinning up instances on AWS to failover (which will be enormously costly for bandwidth) No status, no nothing, we're in the dark.

Hey. Do you want to shoot me an email, IRC chat, or anything? I can keep you up to date with what I'm hearing from my manager.

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

#28

My side project StatusGator monitors status pages (including IBM's ill-fated page) and I'm seeing more than 10% of the nearly 800 services we monitor having an outage right now. So it appears to affect anyone who depends on IBM Cloud.

Big fans of StatusGator here.

Do you have similar %'s of monitored cloud services that have gone off the air during other providers' outages?

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

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post #26

All of Broadcastify's audio servers (hosted with Softlayer in their Dallas datacenter) are completely unreachable and down. I'm going to wait a bit to see if we get a status update, otherwise we'll be spinning up instances on AWS to failover (which will be enormously costly for bandwidth) No status, no nothing, we're in the dark.

Hey. Do you want to shoot me an email, IRC chat, or anything? I can keep you up to date with what I'm hearing from my manager.

Hey, I'm a customer of IBM Cloud, too. Could you share what you're hearing from them? It would be nice to know what's going on
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