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Well, at least our decision to split services has paid off. All of our web app infrastructure is on AWS, which is currently down, but our status page [0] is on Digital Ocean, so at least our customers can go see that we are down!

A pyrrhic victory... ;)

[0] - http://status.hrpartner.io

EDIT UPDATE: Well, I spoke too soon - even our status page is down now, but not sure if that is linked to the AWS issues, or simply the HN "hug of death" from this post! :)

EDIT UPDATE 2: Aaaaand, back up again. I think it just got a little hammered from HN traffic.

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When even the status page is down, panic.

Could be worse, your entire infrastructure could be hosted on Heroku.

You don't use S3 but because they do, your entire infrastructure crumbles.

I didn't realize Heroku used s3 until today, when my heroku app failed. Makes me wonder why I'm using heroku instead of just aws.

If you're looking for the simplicity of Heroku but want to run on raw AWS check out Convox. It's open source and free to try.

https://convox.com

Disclosure: I'm one of the cofounders

Heroku is a rewrap of AWS for simplicity.

You're paying Heroku to not have to think about deployment or scale, which is also why their marketplace is successful - who wants to think about managing a database, when two clicks and a few environment variables later you can have one. Heroku is great for devs who don't want to think about ops and can afford to throw money at the problem (it gets really expensive really fast).

Skyliner is an option if you're doing real production stuff.

I don't see why this is being downvoted. It's a pretty legitimate concern.

esp since my side project on heroku which uses nothing is down because of this.

The biggest change heroku needs to make is support different regions.

HTTP 500 :(

Plot twist: Digital Ocean is secretly hosted on AWS

shhhhhhhhhhh!!!

LOL...I just got notice that our status server is down now too! Maybe DO is just a rebranded offshoot of AWS after all... :D

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