Wesbite & Forum Outage 10th Dec 2016

[MK14]

Just wondering, can't get to the "show new replies" page for a few days now... I get this:

Code: [Select]

502 - Bad Gateway

We are sorry for the inconvenience that this error may be causing you. We are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it, please be patient.

There is no need to report this error.

Thank you for your patience,
Dave & gnif
Is that part of this issue or something else?

I had the same problem and solved it (today), by clicking on the web browsers refresh button.

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/show-new-reply-to-your-posts-causes-502-forum-error/msg1091765/?topicseen#msg1091765

[sleemanj]

Maybe if you switched to a high-end hosting provider like AWS.... oh wait... 

Yes, but with AWS you have a lot of power at your direct command and you can structure your systems to assume the sort of risk you want, from "availability zone in this region goes down, site is dead until it's fixed" to "this thing will keep running unless every Amazon region around the world has died".

But of course, you have to be able to do that setup, if it's not your day job, better to leave somebody else to do it for you, if nothing else that there's a lot of assholes and botnets out there who will stop at nothing to try and kill your site/server/network.  Some are smarter than others.

Not all of them are as kind as one I caught today who kindly announced it's UserAgent as "WebFuck V2.1 T0PHackTeam www.t0p.xyz" as it searched through some sites for exploits. 

[djos]

Maybe if you switched to a high-end hosting provider like AWS.... oh wait... 

Yes, but with AWS you have a lot of power at your direct command and you can structure your systems to assume the sort of risk you want, from "availability zone in this region goes down, site is dead until it's fixed" to "this thing will keep running unless every Amazon region around the world has died".

But of course, you have to be able to do that setup, if it's not your day job, better to leave somebody else to do it for you, if nothing else that there's a lot of assholes and botnets out there who will stop at nothing to try and kill your site/server/network.  Some are smarter than others.

Not all of them are as kind as one I caught today who kindly announced it's UserAgent as "WebFuck V2.1 T0PHackTeam www.t0p.xyz" as it searched through some sites for exploits.

You clearly didn't click on the link, they lost the whole Sydney D.C. Due to a poorly configured BMS not handling a grid voltage sag.

Morale of the story, it can happen to anyone.

[sleemanj]

You clearly didn't click on the link, they lost the whole Sydney D.C. Due to a poorly configured BMS not handling a grid voltage sag.

My point was that the people who were using the Sydney DC could have used the AWS services at their disposal to prepare their system to be resilient to such failure of an entire region if they wanted to invest that time effort and expense.

[djos]

You clearly didn't click on the link, they lost the whole Sydney D.C. Due to a poorly configured BMS not handling a grid voltage sag.

My point was that the people who were using the Sydney DC could have used the AWS services at their disposal to prepare their system to be resilient to such failure of an entire region if they wanted to invest that time effort and expense.

Geographic diversity is no guarantee of 99.9999% uptime, I've managed 2 salesforce outages in 6 months caused by their Japanese D.C. Suffering networking failures.