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A week or two ago, the Haskell website was down for the greater part of a weekend. Digging through Hacker News history, Haskell.org was periodically reported d
by sshine 2y ago
A week or two ago, the Haskell website was down for the greater part of a weekend.
Digging through Hacker News history, Haskell.org was periodically reported down between 7 and 14 years ago.
I suspect the volunteer resources behind language projects have half-hearted DevOps.
So the surprising thing to me is not that php.net is down for hours, but that people care to report it.
- pier25 2y agoAre you seriously comparing a niche language almost nobody uses vs the language that runs the majority of websites?
- 0x073 2y agoIf I understand it correctly the site is managed more like a hobby/private website. There is no company behind with sys admin 24h support.
- pier25 2y agowhat about the PHP Foundation? https://thephp.foundation/ https://thephp.foundation/
- sshine 2y agoI think you’re overstating the usage of Haskell. Hardly everyone uses it. Jokes aside, I think you’ll be surprised to learn that the DevOps effort for most official programming language resources are surprisingly alike, regardless of their popularity.
- pier25 2y agoOTOH static sites are an obvious solution for high resilience, low effort devops, and low cost hosting. They could decouple the comments section to a dynamic API + minimal client-side code. Even if the API and/or DB go down, all the pages of the site will keep working. I would think reliability and uptime are high priorities for a language that could almost be considered critical infrastructure at this point... but what do I know.