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Re:Grammarly editor writing services are malfunctioning by thekrendal on Thursday November 02, 2023 @12:57PM (#38116509)
Which is related to the PDX area data center that went hard-down earlier this morning.

This could easily be related as that DC seems to have housed a lot of cloud based service infrastructure.

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Re:Grammarly editor writing services are malfunctioning by rednerrus on Thursday November 02, 2023 @01:23PM (#38116978)
Which data center is down in PDX?
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Re:Grammarly editor writing services are malfunctioning by bithaze on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:50PM (#38118246)
Flexential PDX02, according to the outages mailing list[0].

[0] https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2023-November/0149...

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Re:Grammarly editor writing services are malfunctioning by swatcoder on Thursday November 02, 2023 @01:08PM (#38116716)
Gee, that makes it sound like cloud-hosted products are susceptible to data center outages just like products that rely on colocated and contracted hosting. Impossible!

/s

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Re:Grammarly editor writing services are malfunctioning by wongarsu on Thursday November 02, 2023 @01:36PM (#38117191)
If half the internet is down, your customers won't complain about you being down as well /s
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