I find pinging localhost a bit more reliable, and faster too.
I blame HN switching to AWS. Downtime also increased after the switch.
I blame HN switching to AWS. Downtime also increased after the switch.
(Those are trick questions, because we haven't switched to AWS. But I genuinely would like to hear the answers.)
(We did switch to AWS briefly when our hosting provider went down because of a bizarre SSD self-bricking incident a few years ago...but it was only for a day or two!)