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Yes and reddit is down as well. Came to hn to check that.

by 8589934591 4y ago

safeimp 4y ago
Same. First assumption is AWS but not seeing related reports.
- samtho 4y ago
  AWS historically has had issues detecting if itself is having issues.
bombcar 4y ago
Reminds me of when Slashdot would go down, and all the slashdot-like sites would immediately fold under the excess traffic. Same here, if reddit goes down, everyone goes to other time-wasters like HN and those begin to get overloaded.
- jedberg 4y ago
  My very first job out of school included running sendmail.org. Rule number one was "make sure we can handle all of Slashdot's traffic".
  - bombcar 4y ago
    Ah, back when major sites would fail to a slashdotting and someone running freeBSD with a text-only site would survive just fine.
    - jedberg 4y ago
      > and someone running freeBSD with a text-only site would survive just fine. Haha yep! That was our trick! FreeBSD FTW. That box ended up having an uptime over 1000 days before we had to power it down to move it.
      - duckmysick 4y ago
        > before we had to power it down to move it. Reminds me of a story where someone had to move a server physically without downtime. The story is on Reddit, but if you really want to read it now there's an archived version. And there's a Hacker News thread too. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/i3xbjb/rant_sorta_physically_moved_a_server_today https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/i3xbjb/rant_sorta... https://web.archive.org/web/20221224195636/https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/i3xbjb/rant_sorta_physically_moved_a_server_today https://web.archive.org/web/20221224195636/https://www.reddi... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059243
    - kloch 4y ago
      That was definitely a thing back then. I've had sites slashdotted several times and never had any issues using FreeBSD and static-ish content and/or compiled C cgi's w/mysql. It also helped that I worked in networking and always had (sometimes just) enough bandwidth available. Then there was that time in my Atari 800 was slashdotted. The Atari could serve several hits/s on it's 9600 baud interface but the 3com CS-210 terminal server would crash about every 6 hours. https://kl.net/atari/ https://kl.net/atari/ Probably the most surprising (for it's time) hits/s I had to deal with was when Art Bell had my solar status monitor gif's inlined right on his homepage for a while in 1997-98. It was pretty wild when he would say on the air "Go to my website right now!"
andrewstuart2 4y ago
I've been messing with fastly for the first time ever. Reddit uses fastly. My bad, guys.
andrewinardeer 4y ago
https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/1xslswydctkp https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/1xslswydctkp Reddit is dead
- fishtacos 4y ago
  Reddit's dead and HN is super-slow. Took about 10 clicks and a couple of mins to even get a reply box going.
  - rootusrootus 4y ago
    If you don't need to comment, go incognito so you can get cached versions of HN pages. Much, much faster.

Yes and reddit is down as well. Came to hn to check that.

safeimp 4y ago

Same. First assumption is AWS but not seeing related reports.

samtho 4y ago
AWS historically has had issues detecting if itself is having issues.

bombcar 4y ago

Reminds me of when Slashdot would go down, and all the slashdot-like sites would immediately fold under the excess traffic. Same here, if reddit goes down, everyone goes to other time-wasters like HN and those begin to get overloaded.

jedberg 4y ago
My very first job out of school included running sendmail.org. Rule number one was "make sure we can handle all of Slashdot's traffic".
- bombcar 4y ago
  Ah, back when major sites would fail to a slashdotting and someone running freeBSD with a text-only site would survive just fine.
  - jedberg 4y ago
    > and someone running freeBSD with a text-only site would survive just fine. Haha yep! That was our trick! FreeBSD FTW. That box ended up having an uptime over 1000 days before we had to power it down to move it.
    - duckmysick 4y ago
      > before we had to power it down to move it. Reminds me of a story where someone had to move a server physically without downtime. The story is on Reddit, but if you really want to read it now there's an archived version. And there's a Hacker News thread too. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/i3xbjb/rant_sorta_physically_moved_a_server_today https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/i3xbjb/rant_sorta... https://web.archive.org/web/20221224195636/https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/i3xbjb/rant_sorta_physically_moved_a_server_today https://web.archive.org/web/20221224195636/https://www.reddi... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059243
  - kloch 4y ago
    That was definitely a thing back then. I've had sites slashdotted several times and never had any issues using FreeBSD and static-ish content and/or compiled C cgi's w/mysql. It also helped that I worked in networking and always had (sometimes just) enough bandwidth available. Then there was that time in my Atari 800 was slashdotted. The Atari could serve several hits/s on it's 9600 baud interface but the 3com CS-210 terminal server would crash about every 6 hours. https://kl.net/atari/ https://kl.net/atari/ Probably the most surprising (for it's time) hits/s I had to deal with was when Art Bell had my solar status monitor gif's inlined right on his homepage for a while in 1997-98. It was pretty wild when he would say on the air "Go to my website right now!"

andrewstuart2 4y ago

I've been messing with fastly for the first time ever. Reddit uses fastly. My bad, guys.

andrewinardeer 4y ago

https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/1xslswydctkp https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/1xslswydctkp Reddit is dead

fishtacos 4y ago
Reddit's dead and HN is super-slow. Took about 10 clicks and a couple of mins to even get a reply box going.
- rootusrootus 4y ago
  If you don't need to comment, go incognito so you can get cached versions of HN pages. Much, much faster.