And that’s important, because?
php.net runs the language's documentation. its not just a home page
Php.net Is Down
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
For the manual (of which, I insist, coders should have an offline copy - they have been available since forever and prudence dictates), there is a backup site, apparently, at
https://docs.phplang.net/docs.php
For the purpose of the submission, I guess some people are puzzled ("What happened?").
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#33If they have used Ruby on Rails would never have happened.
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#34502 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 :)
1xx - Rare novelty response code.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Are you seriously comparing a niche language almost nobody uses vs the language that runs the majority of websites?
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#36After latest PHP release, everyone started migrating their projects to PHP.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :)
1xx - Rare novelty response code.
1xx - this is the websocket connection if you want to watch what it's doing
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :)
1xx - Rare novelty response code.
418 I'm a teapot seemed pretty novel the first few times.
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#39I'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.
We had been able to download PHP documentation, including useful users' notes, since the dawn of time... Prudence. Edit: In case this comes useful to some: I think this is a backup, https://docs.phplang.net/docs.php
Yes! I remember downloading this for working in an offline setup 20+ years ago.
Still, maybe getting rid of the mirrors program 5 years ago had its downsides: