Php.net Is Down

https://www.php.net/

by sschueller • 2 years ago

49 52 2 years ago

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newbing• 2 years ago

Yes,it's down.

pikseladam• 2 years ago

yep. this checks out

captn3m0• 2 years ago

https://github.com/php/web-php/issues/1163

pier255• 2 years ago

It was reported 9 hours ago... and it's still down?

sshine2• 2 years 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.

kstrauser• 2 years ago

Well, there goes my Sunday. I guess it’s off to the horse track instead.

jeffrallen• 2 years ago

Go learn Go. :)

TiredOfLife2• 2 years ago

When Go has something like PHP Composer and doesn't require 50 environment variables.

AlexDragusin• 2 years ago

Coincidence this happens after the 8.4 update? We'll see.

not_your_vase• 2 years ago

Maybe they saw the "php is deprecated" post from a few hours ago, and they were like

  > Oh, why no one told us? Everyone, thanks for the work, but that's it, the project is over. The webserver is now a minecraft server.

donohoe• 2 years ago

I'm sure being on the frontpage of HN isn't helping much.

progbits• 2 years ago

I'm no fan of PHP but let's give them a break. It's Sunday and while having the docs down is unfortunate this basically doesn't matter.

mdp20214• 2 years ago

We had been able to download PHP documentation, including useful users' notes, since the dawn of time... Prudence.

Edit: In case this comes useful to some: I think this is a backup, https://docs.phplang.net/docs.php

wwweston• 2 years ago

Yes! I remember downloading this for working in an offline setup 20+ years ago.

Still, maybe getting rid of the mirrors program 5 years ago had its downsides:

https://derickrethans.nl/php-mirrors.html

dolni• 2 years ago

It's Sunday in the United States.

It's not Sunday everywhere.

tredre3• 2 years ago

I get you're trying to be a white knight of sort and protect the world from HN's american-centric view, but of the 215 world capitals it's currently Sunday in 195 of them and Monday morning in the rest, so...

mdp20214• 2 years ago

Most people in Auckland are very probably still asleep. That they be the responsible maintainers - of a service which I understand is in Germany - is not impossible, just pretty far from the main bets.

ChrisMarshallNY• 2 years ago

It's run by Nexcess.net (or was, the last time I checked). Wonder if the whole hosting service is down?

pier255• 2 years ago

Everything looks fine

https://status.nexcess.net/

pluc• 2 years ago

Down for 10 hours... Not a good look. Nothing goes down for 10 hours unless incompetence is part of the sauce.

cluckindan• 2 years ago

502 Bad Gateway

Damn this ancient laptop. But my Packard Bell won’t connect either?!

diggan2• 2 years ago

2xx - All good

3xx - Somethings could be better

4xx - You did something wrong

5xx - Server did something wrong

Judging by this quick cheat-sheet I just created, this was not your fault :)

rsynnott• 2 years ago

1xx - Rare novelty response code.

Kwpolska2• 2 years ago

And that’s important, because?

mdp20214• 2 years ago

Some infrastructures are supposed to have extremely high uptimes.

Were this occasion frequent, you would not see these submissions.

Kwpolska2• 2 years ago

I understand posting about outages of critical infrastructure (like us-east-1) or interactive websites. But this is a non-interactive website, whose only purpose is delivering text (PHP docs) and maybe some binaries. The few people working on PHP projects on a Sunday may not have access to the official docs for a while. But they can just hop onto the Wayback Machine and carry on with their work.

kyriakos3• 2 years ago

php.net runs the language's documentation. its not just a home page

netsharc• 2 years ago

When latency and pageload was in seconds instead of milliseconds, downloading the documentation as a Windows Help file improved my efficiency.

This is a "kids these days" post. Maybe in a few years "The connection to the data center hosting the 1000 GPUs that run the LLM I ask how to do stuff is down, I can't get any work done!"

TiredOfLife2• 2 years ago

They also appear to be using some kind of "We have Cloudflare at home" solution

elashri• 2 years ago

This status page link from php account on mastodon

https://ohdear.app/status-page/php-infrastructure-status-pag...

devops000• 2 years ago

If they have used Ruby on Rails would never have happened.

3np• 2 years ago

Fake news.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228816

diggan2• 2 years ago

Seemingly https://www.elektronauts.com/ (community for Elektron devices) is also down, coincident? AFAIK, Elektronauts is running Discourse, so Ruby, not PHP, so unlikely to be related that way.

But, I'd wager a bet on some DNS misconfiguration at some CDN or likewise, that both are using :)

0x0733• 2 years ago

Apples and bananas.

Nux• 2 years ago

A good dose of healthy downtime is sometimes welcome.

DataDaemon• 2 years ago

After latest PHP release, everyone started migrating their projects to PHP.

jgalt212• 2 years ago

I haven't used PHP in years, but I always felt the user examples section made their docs better than the Python docs which are still somewhat wanting for common use case based examples.

kyriakos3• 2 years ago

its back online

Php.net Is Down

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