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Heroku is down again
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#92Earlier 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.
Hopefully one day it will be feasible to host our computing architecture in space and avoid all these terrestrial obstructions.
What about when a booster goes off by mistake and sends your data flying into the sun?
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#93MASSIVE 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.
Stormpulse.
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#94Earlier 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.
Hopefully one day it will be feasible to host our computing architecture in space and avoid all these terrestrial obstructions.
I have a feeling the electromagnetic conditions are much more stable on earth than in space. The magnetosphere and the atmosphere deflect a great deal of energy.
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#95I can't believe that guys at heroku are not ready for such situations!
They rely ONLY on virginia's instances because its the cheapest, without caring about customers.. or thinking of replicating their services in multiple locations for such issues!
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#96How many times does this have to happen before heroku spreads across multiple regions?
Even if they can't do it right away, they should communicate a plan for how they are going to tackle this recurring issue. That's the whole point behind status.heroku.com / trust.salesforce.com. They are part of a publicly traded corporation with a lot of resources. Extremely nerve wracking for new startups like ours.
I guess, it is always a good plan to have an instance deployable on Linode.
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#97Yup, a lot of services served by AWS are having issues. We're seeing a huge spike in incidents being triggered in PagerDuty. (fyi: our customers are still being alerted)
What infrastructure do you use for alerting your customers?
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#98I just lost a potential hire because of this, was demoing my app to someone and it wasn't working, she thought it was because of the product. Damn you heroku!
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Until earthquakes.
Depending on where you are in the world, earthquakes are much rarer then insane storms. I'm speaking as a Floridian. I'm fairly ignorant on this issue, but would it be that difficult to use one or the other depending on which natural occurrence is more likely? Or is this also a cost issue?
Massive cost issue, plus some technical issues.
According to this document [1]:
"The North Carolina Utilities Commission studied the cost of placing Duke Power’s distribution facilities underground and found it would cost more than $41 billion, resulting in a 125 percent increase in customer rates."
[1] http://www.sceg.com/NR/rdonlyres/465E6534-2FFB-4069-BF84-814...,