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StackOverflow Is Offline

38 points by filippofinke 4y ago

blmayer 4y ago
Seems to be ok now.
- Izkata 4y ago
  It just switched from an error page to their usual maintenance page for me. 1 second edit: And back to "The service is unavailable" error page. And a moment later: Got it to load, then refreshed and back to error. Just seems really flaky.
- jwandborg 4y ago
  Every other page load fails for me. I get 3 different pages 1. The page I'm looking for 2. A Content-Type: text/html, body: "The service is unavailable." page 3. A more elaborate "Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance" page
cinericius 4y ago
https://www.stackstatus.net/incidents/8d533a56-bacb-48e3-baa5-8266d93f08c3 https://www.stackstatus.net/incidents/8d533a56-bacb-48e3-baa...
OrangeMonkey 4y ago
I recall reading an article, years ago, how stack overflow is ran off of the equivalent of like two on-prem servers that could take the load way better and far more cheaply than an "enterprise cloud architecture" could. I thought it was an amazing example of how expensive it is to be in the cloud. I didn't think about the high availability benefits of the cloud... Think they still run off of a few servers or did they ever migrate to the cloud?
- edmcnulty101 4y ago
  Ive seen entire regions go down in AWS, Google, and Azure. I remember a single developer pushed some code and crashed all of Googles DNS a few years ago. Cloud is not all wine and roses but I still love it.
- moreira 4y ago
  > I didn't think about the high availability benefits of the cloud The cloud has outages too, though. If you've been here long enough you've seen plenty of cloud-related outages. The truth is, outages happen, on cloud or otherwise. They might've avoided this but they might've been hit by yesterday's AWS outage. [0] I don't think they'd gain much from migrating, and to the best of my knowledge they haven't. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32267222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32267222
- warrenm 4y ago
  I don't recall seeing anything in the last couple few years that indicated anything changed edit: https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/05/16/stack-under-attack-what-we-learned-about-handling-ddos-attacks/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/05/16/stack-under-attack-wha... sure sounds like it's still a handful of physical boxes :)
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nomilk 4y ago
Still down for me.
lukecarr 4y ago
Whelp, this couldn’t have happened at a funnier time for me. I’ve been pushing for their paid solution to be used in our team for months, finally got the sign off from compliance, etc. Outage occurs halfway through my presentation to the whole team, shortly after I’d been discussing how great it would be as a robust, highly available storage solution for our knowledge base! Can’t help but laugh at the timing.
taf2 4y ago
Google cache seems to have most of the useful content available

38 points by filippofinke 4y ago

blmayer 4y ago

Seems to be ok now.

Izkata 4y ago
It just switched from an error page to their usual maintenance page for me. 1 second edit: And back to "The service is unavailable" error page. And a moment later: Got it to load, then refreshed and back to error. Just seems really flaky.
jwandborg 4y ago
Every other page load fails for me. I get 3 different pages 1. The page I'm looking for 2. A Content-Type: text/html, body: "The service is unavailable." page 3. A more elaborate "Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance" page

cinericius 4y ago

https://www.stackstatus.net/incidents/8d533a56-bacb-48e3-baa5-8266d93f08c3 https://www.stackstatus.net/incidents/8d533a56-bacb-48e3-baa...

OrangeMonkey 4y ago

I recall reading an article, years ago, how stack overflow is ran off of the equivalent of like two on-prem servers that could take the load way better and far more cheaply than an "enterprise cloud architecture" could. I thought it was an amazing example of how expensive it is to be in the cloud. I didn't think about the high availability benefits of the cloud... Think they still run off of a few servers or did they ever migrate to the cloud?

edmcnulty101 4y ago
Ive seen entire regions go down in AWS, Google, and Azure. I remember a single developer pushed some code and crashed all of Googles DNS a few years ago. Cloud is not all wine and roses but I still love it.
moreira 4y ago
> I didn't think about the high availability benefits of the cloud The cloud has outages too, though. If you've been here long enough you've seen plenty of cloud-related outages. The truth is, outages happen, on cloud or otherwise. They might've avoided this but they might've been hit by yesterday's AWS outage. [0] I don't think they'd gain much from migrating, and to the best of my knowledge they haven't. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32267222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32267222
warrenm 4y ago
I don't recall seeing anything in the last couple few years that indicated anything changed edit: https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/05/16/stack-under-attack-what-we-learned-about-handling-ddos-attacks/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/05/16/stack-under-attack-wha... sure sounds like it's still a handful of physical boxes :)

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nomilk 4y ago

Still down for me.

lukecarr 4y ago

Whelp, this couldn’t have happened at a funnier time for me. I’ve been pushing for their paid solution to be used in our team for months, finally got the sign off from compliance, etc. Outage occurs halfway through my presentation to the whole team, shortly after I’d been discussing how great it would be as a robust, highly available storage solution for our knowledge base! Can’t help but laugh at the timing.

taf2 4y ago

Google cache seems to have most of the useful content available