Hacker News Outage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/

by Amfy • 3 years ago

9 8 3 years ago

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Amfy2• 3 years ago

Seems HN was down for 1hr, 9min (Yes, I monitor my favorite website :-D)

@dang: Can you share anything? Your work is appreciated as always!

nubinetwork• 3 years ago

Email hn@ycombinator.com if it goes sideways again ;)

dang2• 3 years ago

Our FreeBSD server suddenly rebooted itself and we didn't have notes on exactly what to do in that case*. Unfortunately for you all, I was the only HN sysadmin around—there exist other, much better ones—and it took me a while to figure out the sequence. Then a helpful colleague asked a good question that triggered the right memory in my brain, and poof we were back up.

* (since some of you are about to ask—yes, we do now)

Amfy2• 3 years ago

Thank you again!

karaokeyoga• 3 years ago

https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/incidents/wRYnAVoaAWMG

anenefan• 3 years ago

The fact that I had to finally place the site's IP into my own dns table / host file before cloudflare would resolve the link and cry "it's not them it's the host" ... tells me a lot. cloudflare snafu from my perspective, otherwise in 20 seconds I should have seen host issue whine.

Also a few up or down sites resolved the site was up.

Tommstein• 3 years ago

It's because I finally made an account today after reading the site for like 15 years. Apologies.

dang2• 3 years ago

Welcome.

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