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Major outage in Steam gaming platform

12 points by xtracto 7y ago

gchamonlive 7y ago
I was really puzzled because of this. I have a pihole dns server that today decided not to work too well, so I reconfigured my whole setup and got internet again. Couple of hours later, steam decided not to work and I though to myself "here we go again..." Took me a while to find out that steam was actually down
XCSme 7y ago
Never seen Steam down this bad. Everything is down, can't even see the online store: https://store.steampowered.com https://store.steampowered.com , they're gonna lose a lot of money and maybe some market to other platforms. Sabotage?
- gchamonlive 7y ago
  The timing doesn't fit. Not a holiday sale up, just a THQ Nordic sale, if I remember right, and a small bunch of games... if someone wanted valve to bleed, they would have timed the attack better. I believe this to be just a technical mishap. Steam store was responding with an error, now it just times out, meaning they took down the load balancer and cdn for the site to prevent collateral DDOS (when people keep refreshing the page to see if the service is up again)
  - XCSme 7y ago
    Probably during a sale the techinicians would be a lot more prepared for a possible downtime and ready to fix it, now it could be more of a surprise? But yeah, could also just be someone clicking the wrong button.
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XCSme 7y ago
Discord was also down a few hours ago, probably related. https://status.discordapp.com/incidents/gtvzqy8b2plz https://status.discordapp.com/incidents/gtvzqy8b2plz
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  Why do you think there's a connection?
  - XCSme 7y ago
    Two big platforms going down one after another. If it's a DDOS attack, then maybe they targeted Discord and then Steam.
gchamonlive 7y ago
It's back up
- XCSme 7y ago
  Store is up, still can't login to Steam client. Interesting that they first fixed the Store. It was either easier to fix or it made more sense financially.
  - gchamonlive 7y ago
    Just if you can login to the store but not to the app
74B5 7y ago
Even their page https://www.valvesoftware.com/ https://www.valvesoftware.com/ is down. I'm not a web developer but doesn't that smell like bad architecture?

12 points by xtracto 7y ago

I was really puzzled because of this. I have a pihole dns server that today decided not to work too well, so I reconfigured my whole setup and got internet again. Couple of hours later, steam decided not to work and I though to myself "here we go again..." Took me a while to find out that steam was actually down

XCSme 7y ago

Never seen Steam down this bad. Everything is down, can't even see the online store: https://store.steampowered.com https://store.steampowered.com , they're gonna lose a lot of money and maybe some market to other platforms. Sabotage?

gchamonlive 7y ago
The timing doesn't fit. Not a holiday sale up, just a THQ Nordic sale, if I remember right, and a small bunch of games... if someone wanted valve to bleed, they would have timed the attack better. I believe this to be just a technical mishap. Steam store was responding with an error, now it just times out, meaning they took down the load balancer and cdn for the site to prevent collateral DDOS (when people keep refreshing the page to see if the service is up again)
- XCSme 7y ago
  Probably during a sale the techinicians would be a lot more prepared for a possible downtime and ready to fix it, now it could be more of a surprise? But yeah, could also just be someone clicking the wrong button.
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XCSme 7y ago

Discord was also down a few hours ago, probably related. https://status.discordapp.com/incidents/gtvzqy8b2plz https://status.discordapp.com/incidents/gtvzqy8b2plz

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
Why do you think there's a connection?
- XCSme 7y ago
  Two big platforms going down one after another. If it's a DDOS attack, then maybe they targeted Discord and then Steam.

gchamonlive 7y ago

It's back up

XCSme 7y ago
Store is up, still can't login to Steam client. Interesting that they first fixed the Store. It was either easier to fix or it made more sense financially.
- gchamonlive 7y ago
  Just if you can login to the store but not to the app

74B5 7y ago

Even their page https://www.valvesoftware.com/ https://www.valvesoftware.com/ is down. I'm not a web developer but doesn't that smell like bad architecture?