Google outage – resolved

Re:Google outage – resolved by lucb1e on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:12AM (#25416404)

But why is HN so slow? Pages take like 30+ seconds to load for me (German vantage point, other sites are fine). Does it timeout on some Google dependency or try to use a Google submarine cable or something? Or is everyone just posting to HN about it?

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Re:Google outage – resolved by roboyoshi on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:17AM (#25416468)

I think that is simply because all HN readers using some google service jump over here to check, because google's own statuspage is useless.

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Re:Google outage – resolved by RupertEisenhart on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:15AM (#25416443)

they arn't prepared for such big news, you are part of the involuntary DDOS

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Re:Google outage – resolved by rk06 on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:44AM (#25416797)

It is called HN hug of death (or Reddit hug of death). the traffic due to google outage is much more than usual

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Re:Google outage – resolved by emirhan on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:17AM (#25416466)

I guess it's the demand of everyone checking HN to see if Google is down or not.

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Re:Google outage – resolved by kfrzcode on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:32AM (#25416649)

If memory serves, HN is hosted on a relatively lightweight server configuration.

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