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edit: added details edit: redacted my phone number edit: big mistake to add phone number edit: I think illic is right, probably not me edit: removed details
If it was you, why the hell on earth would you bother exposing your personal phone number on the internet and asking google to call you on this post? Like, seriously... Wouldn't you rather call them directly on the hotline...? That's a phone number from Bulgaria, and it looks like it should be part of the Vivacom GSM network, so I guess it's his personal mobile phone number or a scam.
Had to do what it takes...
To save the company I work for and all of our customers data. Which all is in Google Cloud!
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Interesting cascade effect of sites going down! I wonder where people will go next to check if HN is down? Also wondering if this is perhaps the fastest upvoted HN post ever? 8 mins -> ~350 votes, 15 mins -> ~750 votes. I wonder if @dang could chime in with some stats? Update: looks like it hit 1000 upvotes in ~25 mins! Update: 1500 in ~40 mins Update: 2000 in ~1 hour 20 mins (used the HN API for the timestamp)
reddit, nanog, 4chan, twitter — pick your poison
So, anybody still feel like arguing that 'the cloud' is a viable back-up? Or is that a sore point right now? Just for a moment imagine: what if it never comes back again? Of course it will, - at least, it better - but what if it doesn't? And if it does, are you going to take countermeasures in case it happens again or is it just going to be 'back to normal' again?
If the question is "anybody still feel like arguing that 'a single provider' is a viable back-up" then it's yes for most cases. A better strategy is of course to use multiple providers. The chances that it never comes back again is much lower.
Seems like the incident lasted from 04:00 AM PST to 04:30 AM PST, at least for BigQuery (sorry, image timestamps are in JST, since I'm in Japan): https://imgur.com/a/kiHED6v
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Seems like everyone going on HN now. The site is so slow
Interesting cascade effect of sites going down! I wonder where people will go next to check if HN is down? Also wondering if this is perhaps the fastest upvoted HN post ever? 8 mins -> ~350 votes, 15 mins -> ~750 votes. I wonder if @dang could chime in with some stats? Update: looks like it hit 1000 upvotes in ~25 mins! Update: 1500 in ~40 mins Update: 2000 in ~1 hour 20 mins (used the HN API for the timestamp)
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Seems like everyone going on HN now. The site is so slow
HN uses Firebase, maybe that is the reason.
There is a public API on Firebase, but AFAIR it's just a mirror rather than the main storage.
It's impressive how fast they are at fixing outages, barely a coffee break required. I'm almost starting to believe in this DevOps thing...
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What worries me the most is email. I basically don't use any other Google services other than Gmail and YouTube, but for email I really don't know of an alternative. Sure you can argue "move to Fastmail/Protonmail/Hey/whatever", but those can also go down on you just like Google is down now. And self hosting email is apparently not a thing due to complexity and having to forever fight with being marked as spam (ndr.:…
The point is that you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. All services go down. If you're worried about someone else handling it when it goes down then host your own [1], otherwise you can use something different for each thing you need. Don't rely on Google for everything. 1- https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#ema...
As I said (literally in the second sentence), I don't rely on Google for everything, as you mention. I don't actually rely on Google for anything other than gmail, and of that I am also unhappy. The point I was trying to make is that there aren't really alternatives, and I was hoping someone might come out with a suggestion about how to overcome that problem.