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F-Droid Is Unreachable

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Status page: https://fdroid.checklyhq.com/

Cloudflare mirror(s) are sort of up

* https://pages.fdroidgoes.live/ should be responsive

* https://cloudflare.f-droid.org/ shows a wayback machine snapshot if it doesn't load.

More details about mirror setup: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/229

Disclaimer: I'm an F-Droid contributor

http://fastly.fdroidgoes.live seems to work better than both Cloudflare links. This is from the same GitLab issue.

Quick, everyone, try it out! Pile onto the already overwhelmed server.

The IT equivalent to "I've cut it three times and it's still too short."

Lol.

Yeah I'm a bit puzzled by the intentions behind sharing the link of a site that's down. There are two outcomes behind clicking it:

1. it's down, just like the title of the HN submission says

2. it's up, ok I guess they fixed it?

Neither are particularly interesting or useful. If there's something nefarious behind it - someone DDOSing the site or it being taken down by court order or something - then a story on that would be worth submitting.

Or it could be a wake-damage-control if there were any incident(s) that were to have occurred.

It's a form of Shadenfreude among maintainers of sites.

If this was set up with the standard techniques of the past decade or so, it's not a capacity problem it's a configuration problem or something like a data center on fire. Posting it here won't impact resolving the issue.

Hosted at Hetzner, who are currently doing some maintenance work: https://status.hetzner.com/

No issues expected, but it could be some unexpected but related issue I guess.

Without blaming Hetzner in any way for this, this is the reason why we pay the GCP premium. We hosted at various providers in the past and there have always been problems. At one time it was because the A/Cs weren't working. And that was a big provider.

At GCP we never had any problems with any outage so far. Even with VMs or the hosted features such as Cloud SQL. Whenever there is a maintenance, the systems keep working seamlessly (they migrate the systems somewhere else whenever they do maintenance work or something).

We never felt the need to create high availability services, because it was never necessary so far (the services have always been available). And we've been hosting there for years.

no offense intended but this sounds largely like luck based on my personal experience with cloud providers.

No offense taken. :-) It's just our own observation and not backed by any study or such.

Could also be because we're lucky hosting in the Frankfurt data center. I think the popular us east one has more issues generally.

I had same experience especially with the "unlimited" offerings. Poor network quality or other issues.

GCP / AWS I've had amazing luck, (not in US-east or similar). I backup but don't do high availability anymore.

There was the global load balancer outage in November that took many services offline -- ironically the services that make use of a global load balancer for higher availability. But besides that GCP has been reliable as a whole.

Why is this news? It's a status update, there's websites that can give you alerts for that if it's important.

You may have missed the memo. Hacker News IS the internet's status page.

Jokes aside, I genuinely hit HN first when a site appears to be down.

Hackernews was my status page so many times before that by now it's a more reliable alert system than most status pages going around.

It is because unfortunately, it seems many organisations have a conflict of interest in their status pages, updating them affects their SLA uptime, so they'll try and get away with it.

Failure to update status page should could double against SLA.

In SLA court!

Nothing on their official twitter: https://twitter.com/fdroidorg

But I don't think there's anything to worry about, it looks like a temporary downtime.

They dropped a message on their Mastodon (@fdroidorg@mastodon.technology): https://mastodon.technology/@fdroidorg/108006322149899761

Their repo seems to be up though, I just installed an app a second ago.

That makes sense, the apps are downloaded from mirrors and it automatically falls back to another if one isn't reachable

https://staging.f-droid.org/ works

Works for me, but it is a bit slow loading.

Is this a hackernews website hug, thats making it slow to load?

Would this main page being unreachable also mean you can't download anything from the repo?

@dang

F-Droid Was Unreachable.

Seems up now

A post hosted on a website that's unreachable saying that it's unreachable. Just my humor. Love it!

I don't think there's a post - it's just a link to the main domain which is not currently reachable to demonstrate the information in the title.

Thats the way I interpreted it too. Probably should have a Tell HN prefix.

Link in post is https://f-droid.org/ which isn't a blog, but main page

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