Scruff connection issues

[+ WmClarke]

Anyone else having trouble connecting to Scruff right now?

 

Part of Amazon's cloud is down right now. Wonder if Scruff is hosted there....

[escortrod]

The A4A issues are certainly to do with Amazon Web Services. It's likely that Scruff is related too. How will the gays survive!

[chirob]

I'm having trouble connecting to Growlr. Also iheart.com Happened shortly after 11:30am Central Time

[Jim Corrigan]

Problems with GROWLr too

[+ WmClarke]

Had problems with GROWLr, thought I got in, but can't get in now.

 

I hate the "cloud"

[escortrod]

Had problems with GROWLr, thought I got in, but can't get in now.

 

I hate the "cloud"

You mean the internet? Fundamentally all that has happened is that some of Amazon's servers have gone offline, for one reason or another.

[chirob]

It seems that the area that was primarily affected was the eastern half of the U.S. Ironically, downdector.com was down.

 

http://wncn.com/2017/02/28/issue-with-amazon-cloud-causing-worldwide-internet-problems/

[Larstrup]

[+ WmClarke]

You mean the internet?

No. The internet is not the "cloud" at all.

 

I mean the marketing stupidity of "the cloud" which organizations think is some magical new technology. It's not. It's just a bunch of computers sitting somewhere. And if Amazon's cloud hosting services are down, it means they didn't architect it correctly. Yet they still sell it, aggressively, as if you never have to worry if your data is in the cloud.

 

I prefer to be responsible for my own data and have appropriate measures in place to restore outages. I have found that problems are usually caused by organizations skimping on dollars.

 

It reminds me of the time about 20 years ago when the internet backbone line into upper New England got cut. Luckily they had a second line--redundancy! Unfortunately, the second line was in the same pipe as the first--design flaw!

 

Fundamentally all that has happened is that some of Amazon's servers have gone offline, for one reason or another.

Yes. A better architected system would prevent the outage.

[escortrod]

No. The internet is not the "cloud" at all.

 

They're not synonyms, but cloud services obviously rely on the internet. Anyhow, I misunderstood what you meant when you said "I hate the "cloud"".

[+ MasssageGuy]

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[escortrod]

Im so scared guys maybe trump is doing massive escort overhaul and terminated all the gay sites one by one. Omg PLEASE don't tell me Im going to have to get a 9-5 again, oh no the horror

 

if anyone on the forum needs an ASSistant please know Im good in math and on my hands and knees :D

You'll just have to put on your sluttiest clothes and take to the streets.

[+ WmClarke]

Seem to be up now. Grindr pops up a "there may be slowness due to technical issues" notice but it works.

[Larstrup]

Amazon broke the internet with a typo

 

Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) published an explanation about Tuesday's disrupted service of S3, part of Amazon Web Services, which provides hosting for hundreds of thousands of websites and apps.

 

Turns out, it was a typo.

 

In a statement on Thursday, Amazon said an employee on its S3 team was working on an issue with the billing system and meant to take a small number of servers offline -- but they incorrectly entered the command and removed a much larger set of servers.

 

Amazon is "making several changes" to its system to avoid a similar event in the future. Namely, "the tool used allowed too much capacity to be removed too quickly."

 

According to Synergy Research Group, AWS owns 40% of the cloud services market, meaning it's responsible for the operability of large swaths of popular websites. So if AWS goes down, it takes a huge number of businesses, apps, and publishers with it.

 

That's why so many sites struggled with slow or reduced capacity during Tuesday's outage. Some news organizations couldn't publish stories, and file sharing was disabled on the enterprise chat app Slack. Other sites impacted include GitHub, Trello, and Venmo. It took Amazon almost four hours to resolve the issue.

 

"While we are proud of our long track record of availability with Amazon S3, we know how critical this service is to our customers, their applications and end users, and their businesses," the company said. "We will do everything we can to learn from this event and use it to improve our availability even further."

 

http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/02/technology/amazon-s3-outage-human-error/index.html?sr=twCNN030217amazon-s3-outage-human-error0836PMVODtopPhoto&linkId=35062824