Re:Github: Major Service Outage
by NelsonMinar on Thursday October 18, 2012 @04:38PM
(#4670966)
Github status is hosted on Github, d'oh. Their Twitter feed posted at 2037Z: "We are experiencing issues due to a DDOS attack, working hard to restore service..." https://twitter.com/github/status/259029493669310464
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Looks like github status is on heroku. It's loading fine for me:
> host status.github.com
status.github.com is an alias for appid129905herokucom-760859479.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com.
appid129905herokucom-760859479.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com has address 50.19.101.240
appid129905herokucom-760859479.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com has address 50.19.101.216
appid129905herokucom-760859479.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com has address 107.22.241.165
Re:Github: Major Service Outage
by NelsonMinar on Thursday October 18, 2012 @04:41PM
(#4670988)
Ah, my mistake. Some HN story linked to https://github.com/status which was down when I was posting the Twitter status.
Yep after the last major outage they switched to Heroku
They were already running their status site on Heroku prior to the last major service outage.
This is correct. They needed ~90 dynos to keep up with about 500 qps on their status page in the last outage.
Should probably throw a Fastly or CloudFlare cache in front of a single dyno.
That would suggest people in charge know what they're doing.