Hetzner, Netcup, OVH,
BunnyCDN,
ClouDNS,
Postmark
You name them. Other good providers you have experience with?
There is no reason for an expensive cloud. Never has been, but decision makers tried to keep their pants dry.
Tell HN: Azure outage
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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage
#742Looking forward to the post mortem.
> What went wrong and why? > An inadvertent tenant configuration change within Azure Front Door (AFD) triggered a widespread service disruption affecting both Microsoft services and customer applications dependent on AFD for global content delivery. The change introduced an invalid or inconsistent configuration state that caused a significant number of AFD nodes to fail to load properly, leading to increased latencie…
We have some trouble with the AFD in Germany too.
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#743Earlier quoted context omitted.
Electronic voting and mail voting are very different things though.
They both share the fact that you don't see your vote enter a ballot box.
With proper mail voting you have a way to verify that your mailed in vote is counted.
(AI generated explanation) How the double-envelope system works
Inner “secrecy” envelope
You mark your ballot, fold it, and slip it into an unmarked inner envelope. No name or identifying info is on this envelope, so your choices stay anonymous. Outer declaration envelope
The inner envelope goes inside a larger outer envelope that carries: – A ballot ID/barcode unique to you. – A signature line that must match the one on file with your election office. In many states, a detachable privacy flap or perforated strip hides the signature until election officials open the outer envelope, keeping the ballot secret.
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#745Earlier quoted context omitted.
They both share the fact that you don't see your vote enter a ballot box.
Is it possible to trace your own vote after? There has to be a technical solution to ensure that your own vote was counted
yes there is. Check double envelope mail in voting mechanics.
Re: Tell HN: Azure outage
#746Interesting that everybody knows when AWS goes down but Azure needs a "Tell HN" :)
Best of luck to the teams responding to this incident.
Re: Tell HN: Azure outage
#747We all need to move away from these big cloud providers. Two medium size smaller providers is enough.
-Cloudflare for R2 (object storage) and CDN (Fastly+backblaze also available). -Two VPS/Server providers with a decent reputation and mid-size (using a comparison site like https://serversearcher.com or look directly into people like Hetzner or latitude) -PlanetScale or Neon for database if you don't co-locate it, though better to use someone like digital ocean, vultr or latitude who offer databases too)
Re: Tell HN: Azure outage
#748Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could you provide a reference about the train disruption? I tried but couldn't find anything in English.
Here is an article in English: https://nltimes.nl/2025/10/29/ns-hit-microsoft-cloud-outage-... It should be noted that the article isn't complete: while the travel planner and ticket machines were the first to fail, trains were cancelled soon after; it took a few hours before everything restarted. Based on what the conductors said, I would speculate that the train drivers digital schedule was not operative, so they d…
Thanks! Perhaps one of the sites that track train delays can give a statistic?
This list doesn't have anything that looks relevant: https://www.rijdendetreinen.nl/en/disruptions/archive?date_b...
The day does not appear as an outlier in the monthly statistics: https://www.rijdendetreinen.nl/en/statistics/2025/10
I don't find a detailed statistic on the overall delays, but the per-station statistics for Amsterdam Centraal say 5% of trains were cancelled and 17% were delayed by 5 minutes or more (mostly by 10 minutes): https://www.rijdendetreinen.nl/en/train-archive/2025-10-29/a...
Re: Tell HN: Azure outage
#749Earlier quoted context omitted.
My favourite was the Azure CTO complaining that Git was unintuitive, clunky and difficult to use
Isn’t it?
Yes. But the point is compared to Azure in places the statement was very much the pot commenting on the kettles sooty arse. And git makes no particular pretence to be particularly friendly, just that it does a particular job efficiently.
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#750Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'd think that Starbucks execs would be held accountable for the fragile system they have put in place. But they won't be.
Why? Starbucks is not providing a critical service. Spending less money and resources and just accepting the risk that occasionally you won't be able to sell coffee for a few hours is a completely valid decision from both management and engineering pov.
If I were a Starbucks shareholder I wouldn't be happy that my company is throwing away revenue because of the CTO's decision to outsource accountability
Time and time again it's shown that AWS is far more expensive than other solutions, just easier for the Execs to offshore the blame.