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Travel websites are down? Airbnb.com, Expedia.com
Airbnb, Expedia, Hotels.com all seem down
- losvedir 5y agoHa, how do you end up reaching for "travel websites"? Like, what is the shared technology that they use that general internet sites don't? I clicked into the comments hoping to learn something interesting about the travel industry (like maybe Airbnb and Expedia and others are all part of some conglomerate - like how many of the dating websites are actually one company). But, yeah, general infrastructure being down and affecting all kinds of disparate (travel and non-travel) sites makes sense and is boring. Reminds me of an interesting study where researchers gave a list of numbers with some hidden property and let people ask if other numbers have that property, to try to figure out what it was. And people tend to generate numbers that agree with their hypothesis, to try to confirm it, rather than numbers that disagree, to disprove it. Wish I could find that study.
- jader201 5y ago> and is boring This is actually helpful to see a lot of unrelated sites affected by (likely) a similar cause. I've had issues with a couple different sites, and it's good to see confirmation that it's not just me. Particularly since a) the number of affected sites appears to be growing, and b) as the downtime continues to increase.
- chrisgoman 5y agohttps://downdetector.com/ https://downdetector.com/
- D13Fd 5y agoTravel websites actually do use certain shared back-end systems in some cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 5y agoAnd these systems are ancient, think using-proprietary-keyboard-typing-commands-on-a-terminal ancient - and often the only access control is knowing the last name of the traveler, or an 6-8 character password.
- losvedir 5y agoAha! Very cool, thanks for sharing that.
- purisame 5y agoConcur is also down
- zxspectrum1982 5y agoSkyScanner is also down
- uaas 5y agoNot just travel sites, it’s Akamai/AWS probably: https://downdetector.com/ https://downdetector.com/
- meibo 5y agoSteam is down: https://steamstat.us/ https://steamstat.us/
- penagwin 5y agoAWS and/or Akamai are having service issues - naturally both of their status pages are green.
- blondie9x 5y agoWhy the heck are status pages so useless here?
- s_dev 5y agoBecause status pages are now pages that express politics regarding SLAs for executives and lawyers rather than useful technical tools for developers and sys-admins.
- xnyan 5y agoI've seen this behavior at every place I've worked. You get in trouble when the status page goes red, therefore never say that anything is down unless you absolutely have to do so.
- robrtsql 5y agoOne pessimistic argument would be that AWS has no incentive to be honest or timely about acknowledging service outages.
- Frost1x 5y agoI'd call that the realistic argument. What's the optimistic argument if that's pessimistic? That an entity the scale of Amazon and AWS just can't figure out how to report system status? Or they forgot? Or didn't have the demand to create it?
- hutrdvnj 5y ago> What's the optimistic argument if that's pessimistic? They have some rudimentary automated checks that doesn't cover enough failure scenarios. After some time, given there are enough reports on twitter, they check manually if something is wrong and a human operator writes a status on the status page.
- threecheese 5y agoWe are having multiple outages due to DNS. Akamai, Cloudfront hosted content is down.
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- jacob019 5y agoFedEx.com is down
- jamincan 5y agoAs is UPS.
- aminozuur 5y agoAgoda's up: https://www.agoda.com https://www.agoda.com
- econnors 5y agoakamai reporting issues now https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/ https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/
- blondie9x 5y agoThis is updated -> https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/ https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/
- jader201 5y agoAlly Bank is also down (the app, or if you try to log in on their site).
- darkwizard42 5y agoAirbnb seems to be back up!
- usename_Here 5y agoCarmax & Autotrader
- twalichiewicz 5y agoFidelity (both the website and mobile app seem to be having login problems), I wonder if it’s related?
- JTbane 5y agoVanguard down... Kinda depressing how fragile the Internet is.
- bdz 5y agoWatching some Olympics, Eurosport Player is also down
- jader201 5y agoRelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27920665 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27920665