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Considering this seems to be working at the moment (2 hours later) does this really qualify as news? Sure, significant downtime might be of interest, but are we
by nopassrecover 16y ago
Considering this seems to be working at the moment (2 hours later) does this really qualify as news? Sure, significant downtime might be of interest, but are we really going to link the URL of every web-service that is down for an hour or two here or there?
A post about the causes or effects of said outage, or general related social commentary might be worthy of a HN submission - but to simply throw the URL of any service showing a 404 for some small amount of time seems a bit pointless (exceptions perhaps being Google/Facebook being down worldwide for a couple of hours).
- brndnhy 16y agoI suppose this became newsworthy on the heels of such posts as http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2011/03/understanding-and-using-amazon-ebs.html http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2011/03/understanding-and-using-... and much corporate blogging over the past few months about their migration to AWS.
- nopassrecover 16y agoI guess my point is, a post highlighting this relevance as your comment did makes it newsworthy, whereas "look some site is down" is mostly context-less for a lot of us.
- ankimal 16y agoIt would be great if someone from Netflix could comment on what happened. Seen nothing on their blog or facebook page. When websites go down, the idea is not to point and make fun but more to learn what and why because you ll find yourself in those shoes sooner than you think.