DigitalOcean Connectivity Issues

The HN title i clicked said 5 hours, is that true? Holy cow.

edit: I guess it is, the Tweet is from 12AM (PST) and it's currently 6AM, yet their status page shows mostly down regions. Though hard to say exactly what the red x means.

mdekkers 9 years ago | |

Not sure why the title was changed. They have been down for about 6 hours now, and people globally are reporting the inability to connect to their droplets. Their status updates are meaningless.

t3ra 9 years ago | | |

Yep post titled got edited (maybe mods ?)

ajross 9 years ago | |

Indeed, my droplet in SFO2 is still down, apparently for the last seven and a half hours at this point.

justaaron 9 years ago |

my droplets are all fine, and were running the whole time. the issue seems to be connectivity related, as i can only ssh into most of them, and they've been coming back online in groups...

chrissnell 9 years ago |

They have updated the status page with more information. Apparently, they had a major power outage that took out multiple redundant power sources.

ajross 9 years ago | |

At exactly midnight local time at the data center? Something doesn't add up. This is going to be one fun post mortem...

mdekkers 9 years ago |

And the updates from their status channels are a joke.

tehbeard 9 years ago | |

Less of a joke than AWS green ticks.

mdekkers 9 years ago | | |

nah, I think they are about the same.

mattcoles 9 years ago |

Prod database deleted again? ;)

Bit of a shame to happen so close to the last one.

rashthedude 9 years ago | |

Lol

piniyini 9 years ago |

Who to use as a backup to DO, is Linode a good choice?

mdekkers 9 years ago | |

I tried VULTR, but they also suck. Linode looks interesting, but they don't appear to offer private networking.

I was spending hundreds of dollars a month on DO, VULTR and a few others. Last month I rented 3x 16 core 64GB bare metal servers, stuck Ceph on, and am now standing up Mesosphere on KVM. Cheaper, faster, and not more of an operational risk over using the cloud-clowns.

lykron 9 years ago | | |

Linode offers a shared private network per datacenter.

mdekkers 9 years ago | | |

I did not know that, and was unable to find this information anywhere on the site last time I checked. This is good to know, I'll consider them for bursting.

lykron 9 years ago | |

Linode, except for DDoSs, has been incredibly solid.

sitepodmatt 9 years ago | | |

Aside from the DDOS incidents Linode is generally very solid in connectivity department, but their communication skills when things go wrong leaves a lot of be desired - often their status page is 20+ minutes behind and has omissions. The way they handled communication on security issues was equally poor.

piniyini 9 years ago | | |

I'm hoping one or the other will be available at any given time, currently I have 2 droplets with Route53 doing the failover but its still all eggs in one basket. If only we could migrate a backup over to linode/secondary provider would be much easier.

lykron 9 years ago | | |

Yeah. Nobody is perfect, but Linode's technical features and support makes up for it in my book.

piniyini 9 years ago | | |

Thanks, I was leaning towards them myself. Will sign up.

lykron 9 years ago | | |

Feel free to show some love: https://www.linode.com/?r=a1baa5d9cdf4db262bb748108359572ffe...

piniyini 9 years ago | | |

Signed up, ta.

joshmn 9 years ago | |

Vultr, OVH, Scaleway all come to mind for hourlies.

wkoszek 9 years ago |

My droplets are still down 5 hours later.