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is this down at the moment? (Sat Jan 27 23:18:48 UTC 2018) the ux seems to be hanging, trying to contact https://ssh.cloud.google.com ...

"slashdotted?", or whatever the hackernews term for that is?

... of course, moments after i posted this comment, it started responding again. Growing pains, I suppose, or temporary burp.

Delay for spinning up new instances?