The sad state of the internet and the world wide web, from a decentralized network envisioned to withstand nuclear armageddon [1] to a series of services so intertwined and full of single points of failure that a focused attack can take cause worldwide outages and disrupt communications everywhere.
Heroku was/is down. Apparently they missed the memo where a service provider like them is supposed to handle things like this for us and not keep all their eggs in one basket.
What cloud provider of PaaS uses a single company for their DNS? Pitiful.
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Right now I can't build nodejs apps because of unreachable external dependencies
Was going to move our websites over to a new server today but something tells me the timing might not be ideal...
What cloud provider of PaaS uses a single company for their DNS? Pitiful.
We are on Heroku and have had some of our customers have access issues, but only a few.
None of the toolbelt commands were working for us.