Reddit Status

#1

Post by kornakiewicz » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 1:13 PM UTC

Re: Reddit Status

#2

Post by tylermenezes » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 1:18 PM UTC

I am convinced that Reddit's status page underreports outages, there are a lot of times I can't access the site for 15min but it never shows up on here. (And I don't even visit it that often.)

I think they're the major company with the fewest 9s of uptime.

Re: Reddit Status

#3

Post by nickthemagicman » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 1:19 PM UTC

Looking forward to this postmortem! Looks like their request rate has dropped by like 80%-90%!! Don't know if that include CDN requests or what, assuming it's just the reddit.com domain.

Re: Reddit Status

#4

Post by cf141q5325 » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 1:24 PM UTC

> Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Feb 19, 05:24 PST

Re: Reddit Status

#5

Post by onplus » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 1:24 PM UTC

CDN was unable to reach servers.Happens again

Re: Reddit Status

#6

Post by danielbln » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 1:27 PM UTC

tylermenezes wrote: post #2

I am convinced that Reddit's status page underreports outages, there are a lot of times I can't access the site for 15min but it never shows up on here. (And I don't even visit it that often.) I think they're the major company with the fewest 9s of uptime.

I don't know one way or the other, but I visit/use the site a lot (more than I should) and I rarely if ever see outages. For what it's worth.

Re: Reddit Status

#7

Post by joefourier » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 1:29 PM UTC

Does anyone know why Reddit seems to be alone among the world’s most popular sites in having so many outages and frequent periods of slowness? I’ve been on it for more than a decade and its unreliability has been fairly constant. Is the engineering team more resource constrained than others or held back by unusual amounts of legacy code, or is it simply confirmation bias resulting from earlier experiences?

Re: Reddit Status

#8

Post by ipnon » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 1:30 PM UTC

Anyone willing to put a price on 1 hour and 14 minutes of Reddit downtime? I would guess this cost less than a $1,000,000 USD but more than $100,000.

Re: Reddit Status

#9

Post by abhisuri97 » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 1:32 PM UTC

old.reddit.com still works!

Re: Reddit Status

#10

Post by MichaelApproved » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 1:35 PM UTC

danielbln wrote: post #6

tylermenezes wrote: post #2

I am convinced that Reddit's status page underreports outages, there are a lot of times I can't access the site for 15min but it never shows up on here. (And I don't even visit it that often.) I think they're the major company with the fewest 9s of uptime.

I don't know one way or the other, but I visit/use the site a lot (more than I should) and I rarely if ever see outages. For what it's worth.

Do you use the actual site or do you use Reddit with an app?

I think the actual site, Reddit.com, is the one with more outages.