Algolia's Index of Hacker News Is Down

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by ciarannolan • 6 years ago

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redox_8• 6 years ago

Is it? Working from here. What kind of network error do you get?

ciarannolan4• 6 years ago

I get a completely blank page.

I'm testing from two separate internet connections, with different ISPs, in the same region.

If there's a way to provide more info or some kind of error, let me know.

ciarannolan4• 6 years ago

*A page that looks like the normal Algolia HN page, but with no results.

And it's working for me now. Hope I didn't cause any panic; sorry about that.

It was "offline" for me and a friend for about an hour, but it's back up now. Might be some kind of intermittent issue.

edit (18 mins after this comment): it's blank again for me, and I'm getting a 429 error.

hypewatch2• 6 years ago

I had this issue last night. What was really odd was that algolia’s API was throttling - 429 error code - when I was connected to my wifi, but when I switched to my cell network it worked fine. Then this morning it worked fine on both.

ciarannolan4• 6 years ago

I tried on my regular home internet, then my cell phone, then had a friend who's in the same geographic area as me (but different ISP) try it.

redox_8• 6 years ago

Thanks for sharing, this is surprising as the rate-limit should be per IP :/ Investigating.

redox_8• 6 years ago

Should be good now.

redox_8• 6 years ago

[HN Search admin speaking] We disabled the rate-limit for now. A load-balancer experimentation that didn't behave as expected (the LB's IP getting rate-limited).

ciarannolan4• 6 years ago

Thanks, Sylvain, much appreciated. It's working for me now.

I must say I expected this post to kind of go into the ether, not for Algolia's VP of Engineering to reply with a solution within an hour :)

Have a nice weekend!

redox_8• 6 years ago

Let’s say it was a mix of HN alerting (hnwatcher), good timing (Friday evening) and luck :) very happy to have seen this in time. Have a nice WE as well!

Algolia's Index of Hacker News Is Down

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