Heroku is down again • Hacker News Board

Re: Heroku is down again

#31

Post by RegEx » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:33 AM UTC

Loadbalancers are down for me: Getting 'Response contains invalid JSON' upon attempted termination.

Re: Heroku is down again

#32

Post by shadowz » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:34 AM UTC

robbiet480 wrote: post #14

MASSIVE Storms in VA area where us-east-1 is. 326,000 customers without power already, worst lightning I have seen in my 20 years of life. Sky is intense blue/green/purple. This is most likely what the issue is

Seems pretty severe actually. Washington Post has a live blog going on about it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/pos...

Re: Heroku is down again

#33

Post by darrenkopp » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:37 AM UTC

Think that netflix is down too. so much for chaos monkey?

Re: Heroku is down again

#34

Post by pud » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:41 AM UTC

This is the motivation I needed to spread my EC2 instances across multiple availability zones. When the power comes back.

(fandalism is down)

Re: Heroku is down again

#35

Post by edouard1234567 » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:43 AM UTC

idea for heroku : allow customers to host a "my app is down page for blah blah reason" where they host their status page (rackspace I guess?). Who think this would be useful? My users see a blank page right now when they go to ZeTrip, I'd rather show them a static page saying : "our site is down due to amazon lack of redundancy."

Re: Heroku is down again

#36

Post by reustle » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:44 AM UTC

I can't get to netflix.com. That is no good. Luckily all of my 75+ east servers seem to be ok.

Re: Heroku is down again

#37

Post by sehugg » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:45 AM UTC

pud wrote: post #34

This is the motivation I needed to spread my EC2 instances across multiple availability zones. When the power comes back. (fandalism is down)

Don't assume that'll save you.

Re: Heroku is down again

#38

Post by sofuture » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:46 AM UTC

MicahWedemeyer wrote: post #19

Can we update the title to something like "AWS US-east-1 is down" instead of just Heroku?

> informative titles get changed

> uninformative titles left intact

hn 2012

Re: Heroku is down again

#39

Post by stbullard » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:47 AM UTC

EC2 status:

8:21 PM PDT We are investigating connectivity issues for a number of instances in the US-EAST-1 Region.

8:31 PM PDT We are investigating elevated errors rates for APIs in the US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) region, as well as connectivity issues to instances in a single availability zone.

8:40 PM PDT We can confirm that a large number of instances in a single Availability Zone have lost power due to electrical storms in the area. We are actively working to restore power.

Re: Heroku is down again

#40

Post by blantonl » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:47 AM UTC

darrenkopp wrote: post #33

Think that netflix is down too. so much for chaos monkey?

Yup, I can confirm from here in Montana that both Netflix and Herkou are down.

However, I have 20 instances on us-east. And haven't seen any problems, even during yesterday's outage on AWS.

Edit: that doesn't mean this isn't an AWS outage.... It almost certainly is.