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Re: Heroku is down again

#71

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

No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it.

this is pretty bad, really bad ...

Re: Heroku is down again

#72

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

No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it.

I'm completely ignorant here. But aren't these outages usually solved by having backup servers in different locations? As many datacenters do, and as I imagine something as huge as heroku would?

Re: Heroku is down again

#74
post #53

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 electri…

8:49 PM PDT Power has been restored to the impacted Availability Zone and we are working to bring impacted instances and volumes back online.

9:20 PM PDT We are continuing to work to bring the instances and volumes back online. In addition, EC2 and EBS APIs are currently experiencing elevated error rates.

Re: Heroku is down again

#75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it.

Or as the religious people call it, "The Act of God". No seriously, people actually write that shit in their terms. Hilarious.

It's a legal term with a specific meaning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God

Re: Heroku is down again

#76

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

Saw this post here on HN, pulled up www.chart.state.md.us to watch the live traffic cams in the area. Clicked through a couple, some of which showed heavy rain, wind & lightning. Then the stream froze and now the site is completely unresponsive.

Re: Heroku is down again

#78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it.

Or if we just built our power grid underground like rational people.

Until earthquakes.

Re: Heroku is down again

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it.

Or as the religious people call it, "The Act of God". No seriously, people actually write that shit in their terms. Hilarious.

Presumably in this case - Thor ?
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