Track HN: Downtime visualized

by moe • 17 years ago

38 42 17 years ago

kailashbadu2• 17 years ago

I am finding that HN is down more often these days. Is it because of occasional spikes or is it a persistent occurrence. Perhaps pg could explain what's going on under the hood?

pclark2• 17 years ago

I find it handy when HN goes down. Lets me get some work done. :)

kailashbadu2• 17 years ago

I on the other hand become further unproductive. I keep coming back every 30 seconds to see if it’s up again and end up doing nothing at all.

palish• 17 years ago

It's like a global noprocrast. Let's take the next leap and add support for a 'global noprocrast vote'. If more people vote 'yes' than vote 'no', the site goes down for an hour.

pg3• 17 years ago

A few days ago when that guy hacked the site, we turned off the process that restarts News when it gets wedged, and we forgot to turn it back on.

colins_pride2• 17 years ago

I've seen an app like this before ..

My recollection was that it was generalized so that a user could specify a site, and the app would say whether the site was up or not .. but it did not monitor to let you know when it was back up ..

Combining the two would make a very handy tool .. to be able to monitor when any site is back up ..

kylec• 17 years ago

You're probably thinking of http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/; You're right, though, continuous monitoring would be very handy for some sites.

colins_pride2• 17 years ago

Yeah, that's the one ..

ramchip• 17 years ago

I tried checking if "downforeveryoneorjustme.com" was down using itself. Looks like the developper saw that coming :)

mhb2• 17 years ago

When I checked, it said it was just down for me.

thamer• 17 years ago

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/news.ycombinator.com

It was developed by Alex Payne of Twitter (@al3x), in the days when twitter had about 90% uptime, if I recall correctly.

wheels4• 17 years ago

I use http://mon.itor.us/ to track our status.

eli• 17 years ago

Why?

kirubakaran• 17 years ago

What gets measured gets managed. :)

pclark2• 17 years ago

why not?

tibix• 17 years ago

When hacker news is down, it creates the "I must not waste my time pressing F5" effect.

manorism• 17 years ago

Or ctrl + R

trezor• 17 years ago

It might be useful to add what timezone that time actually refers to. Unless we sometime soon have downtime which spans several days which makes the +-12 margin irrelevant.

moe3• 17 years ago

Yes, I already have plans for some future lazy sunday. I'll probably add "last 24 hours", "3 days" etc. graphs for a better grip.

Unless ofcourse pg fixes the downtimes - that would kinda pull the plug on my little pet project here.

jwilliams• 17 years ago

Unless ofcourse pg fixes the downtimes

Sheesh - it's a free service on the internet, used (amongst other things) as a vehicle for the new language he's working on. I think you're setting your expectations a bit off.

What does the graph really provide? We know when it's down -- Just seems like griping for me.

jhawk28• 17 years ago

And such start the trend of measuring metrics. The next logical step is to measure when hnstatus.net is up/down.

twoz2• 17 years ago

Yes. How meta of us. :)

How many times in history has a change in the state of a community's forum turned into a dominating discussion onto itself?

twoz2• 17 years ago

When I had probs with HN today, the first thing I did was a twitter search which confirmed it wasn't just me.

mattmaroon• 17 years ago

I seem to often see the site, but when I click threads, I get nothing. Or sometimes on the homepage I get just one story.

mannicken• 17 years ago

Cache? Opera instantly gets page from cache when I press "Back", even if I don't have internet connection.

pg3• 17 years ago

What does the graph mean? I see a red rectangle next to a white rectangle. Is the red rectangle downtime? Surely not...

ptn• 17 years ago

Further, what's the y axis?

jncraton• 17 years ago

It looks like it's just up or down on the y-axis. RRDTool is often used to generate more complex graphs, so something this simple isn't always the most intuitive.

wheels4• 17 years ago

Since it's running on CEST (Central European Standard Time), and just for today, yes, the red bar is downtime.

triplefox• 17 years ago

It was indeed down in the early morning.

tlb• 17 years ago

I just asked Trevor what was going on. Apparently we turned off the restart-HN process back when we were hacked a few days ago, and we forgot to turn it back on. Things should be back to normal now.

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