Heroku is down

https://devcenter.heroku.com

by robbiet480 • 12 years ago

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robbiet480• 12 years ago

Well the dev center just came back up, but now Heroku.com won't load.

They are in the middle of a maintenance period, but they assured everyone there would be no downtime.

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/641

EDIT: The have issued an incident report: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/642

_wesley_• 12 years ago

It's kind of interesting how long it takes status.heroku.com to update - based on our experience and response on twitter, it was about 10 minutes.

avatarez• 12 years ago

same here, between 10 and 15 minutes before the incident report

MitziMoto• 12 years ago

Why are they doing maintenance right smack in the middle of a Monday afternoon!? Losing a crap ton of money right now.

lauradhamilton2• 12 years ago

Update on Heroku's status page:

"Update

Due to our scheduled maintenance this morning, dynos are currently unable to start or be restarted. We are working to address the issue. Posted 2 minutes ago, Jun 23, 2014 18:14 UTC"

stefangomez• 12 years ago

PX dynos seem to be fine (at least mine are). Our staging environment on 2X dynos however are having the same errors as others.

sparkman55• 12 years ago

I know it's popular to be a "developer-centric" organization these days, but please, please, don't schedule risky maintenance operations for 10 AM on a Monday, when your tools are in heavy usage.

Every SaaS product I've built has analyzed traffic, and performed migrations/deployments at off-hours (generally, after midnight in our dominant time zone). In this case, the outage may have resulted in hundreds (thousands?) of paged administrators across the world, but at least fewer end-users would have been affected.

Also, at scale, it's a good idea to deploy to a single cluster/zone first, and check error rates before deploying to the larger environment.

It's pretty scary that the 'professionals' to whom I've trusted my business aren't more savvy when it comes to high availability...

lauradhamilton2• 12 years ago

Looks like I'm back...

Heroku is down

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