Reddit is down

#1

Post by kfinley » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 11:00 PM UTC

Reddit is down
reddit.com

Re: Reddit is down

#2

Post by conover » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 11:03 PM UTC

An issue with a software upgrade apparently: http://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/902y2bfc3bq4

Re: Reddit is down

#3

Post by Artlav » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 11:11 PM UTC

conover wrote: post #2

An issue with a software upgrade apparently: http://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/902y2bfc3bq4

Let me guess... Wait, no. MS stopped that in July, right?

Re: Reddit is down

#4

Post by aelsabbahy » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 11:24 PM UTC

conover wrote: post #2

An issue with a software upgrade apparently: http://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/902y2bfc3bq4

"We had a slight issue with a routine software upgrade" - love the wording on that. Sounds like something I would tell my boss after accidentally taking prod down.

Re: Reddit is down

#5

Post by juliand » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 11:35 PM UTC

aelsabbahy wrote: post #4

conover wrote: post #2

An issue with a software upgrade apparently: http://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/902y2bfc3bq4

"We had a slight issue with a routine software upgrade" - love the wording on that. Sounds like something I would tell my boss after accidentally taking prod down.

"We'll be back momentarily." Posted about 1 hour ago.

Seems serious.

Re: Reddit is down

#6

Post by jstalin » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 11:46 PM UTC

juliand wrote: post #5

aelsabbahy wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"We had a slight issue with a routine software upgrade" - love the wording on that. Sounds like something I would tell my boss after accidentally taking prod down.

"We'll be back momentarily." Posted about 1 hour ago. Seems serious.

Their anti-Milo filter short circuited.

Re: Reddit is down

#7

Post by contravariant » Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 11:59 PM UTC

And they're back. Although they seem to be struggling with heavy traffic.

Edit: Actually it seems it's only partially up, most user information is still unavailable.

Re: Reddit is down

#8

Post by imadfy » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 12:21 AM UTC

Redundancy! You should be able to switch to your business continuity backup in less than a minute. Come on, people! It isn't that hard to keep the previous version running in read only mode from a read only DB, then recover by enabling writes on the back-end, spooling the transaction log from the false start over to it, turning off front-end read only, and going live!

Re: Reddit is down

#9

Post by jazoom » Fri, Aug 12, 2016, 1:20 AM UTC

imadfy wrote: post #8

Redundancy! You should be able to switch to your business continuity backup in less than a minute. Come on, people! It isn't that hard to keep the previous version running in read only mode from a read only DB, then recover by enabling writes on the back-end, spooling the transaction log from the false start over to it, turning off front-end read only, and going live!

That sounds like all the combined costs of administering that would be less than the cost of a 1 hour outage once per year.