Amazon S3 Outage: How we minimized the impact
Outages in cloud-based services is impossible to avoid. However, with careful planning, you can minimize the impact to your applications significantly.
Outages in cloud-based services is impossible to avoid. However, with careful planning, you can minimize the impact to your applications significantly.
Today, many popular websites suffered significant outage because their managed DNS provider, Dyn, went down due to a massive DDOS attack (what is a DDOS attack?).
If your team is like mine, you probably have quite a number of monitoring services that are monitoring your web application. Having 5+ monitoring services makes it pretty hard to keep track which service triggered which alert.
Whenever any one of my websites appear to be running slow, part of troubleshooting is to figure out whether this issue only affects me or the rest of the world as well. One of the (free) tools that I love to use in situations like this is Host-Tracker.com.