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Comment by shdon | Hacker News Reader

I've been frequenting this site daily for over 15 years now, and I don't think I've had error messages more than a handful of times in that decade and a half. Today was indeed one such time - which is what triggered me to check out this particular post. But at least in my experience it's not what I'd call "often". Maybe you're just very unlucky, or perhaps I'm extremely lucky... Who can tell?

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I've been keeping track, it goes down often (checking from US East, US West, Japan, Australia, and NL)

https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/

here's what it looks like on the monitoring side:

https://x.com/RozenMD/status/1763152885892727188?s=20

(HN is slightly more stable if you're logged out)

I believe it's just a virtual machine and IP addresses are not anycast; no need to check from multiple locations when you can reach the host and the issue is in it returning HTTP 5xx.

True, I mainly monitor from everywhere as a means of dogfooding my own service (and just incase HN gets replicas)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

HN runs on a single core, I doubt they'll get replicas

Do you have a longer term graph please?

I could make that happen, yeah

For the past couple of months I've had these errors multiple times a day, it's definitely often down now.

Months? I'd say I'm mildly addicted to HN and I noticed this week it was hit or miss, but only this week. Very surprised to hear you say months.

I confirm that “months” seems the right time range for me (accessing from Brazil).

I open HN, idk, 10 or 20 times a day, I would guess I see the error message around 5 to 10 times a week.

Do you have a VPN you can try on? I run a VPN connected to a San Fran server 24/7 on my mac and I very very rarely have issued with HN (or any internet issues at all tbh).

I get it happening every few weeks for a short amount of time it seems. More so recently (also been a site user for approximately 10 years).

I had never seen it for more than a decade, but in the last couple of years it has become very frequent.

Maybe somebody bumped the desk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23472870

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