And that’s important, because?
Some infrastructures are supposed to have extremely high uptimes.
Were this occasion frequent, you would not see these submissions.
Php.net Is Down
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#23I'm no fan of PHP but let's give them a break. It's Sunday and while having the docs down is unfortunate this basically doesn't matter.
It's Sunday in the United States. It's not Sunday everywhere.
I get you're trying to be a white knight of sort and protect the world from HN's american-centric view, but of the 215 world capitals it's currently Sunday in 195 of them and Monday morning in the rest, so...
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#24I'm no fan of PHP but let's give them a break. It's Sunday and while having the docs down is unfortunate this basically doesn't matter.
It's Sunday in the United States. It's not Sunday everywhere.
Most people in Auckland are very probably still asleep. That they be the responsible maintainers - of a service which I understand is in Germany - is not impossible, just pretty far from the main bets.
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#25https://github.com/php/web-php/issues/1163
It was reported 9 hours ago... and it's still down?
A week or two ago, the Haskell website was down for the greater part of a weekend.
Digging through Hacker News history, Haskell.org was periodically reported down between 7 and 14 years ago.
I suspect the volunteer resources behind language projects have half-hearted DevOps.
So the surprising thing to me is not that php.net is down for hours, but that people care to report it.
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#26If they have used Ruby on Rails would never have happened.
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#27502 Bad Gateway Damn this ancient laptop. But my Packard Bell won’t connect either?!
2xx - All good
3xx - Somethings could be better
4xx - You did something wrong
5xx - Server did something wrong
Judging by this quick cheat-sheet I just created, this was not your fault :)
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#28And that’s important, because?
Some infrastructures are supposed to have extremely high uptimes. Were this occasion frequent, you would not see these submissions.
I understand posting about outages of critical infrastructure (like us-east-1) or interactive websites. But this is a non-interactive website, whose only purpose is delivering text (PHP docs) and maybe some binaries. The few people working on PHP projects on a Sunday may not have access to the official docs for a while. But they can just hop onto the Wayback Machine and carry on with their work.
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#29Seemingly https://www.elektronauts.com/ (community for Elektron devices) is also down, coincident? AFAIK, Elektronauts is running Discourse, so Ruby, not PHP, so unlikely to be related that way.
But, I'd wager a bet on some DNS misconfiguration at some CDN or likewise, that both are using :)
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#30A good dose of healthy downtime is sometimes welcome.