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tonyhb
Yup, just started seeing this. Never noticed them down before! Wonder if we get a postmortem.

Edit: Seems to be back up

eclipsenet
Back down again, also, it's probably not helping that the link on this post is to their site... causing more traffic to come into an obviously taxed system ... lol.
gist
Seriously you think that a company like that can't handle a traffic spike from HN?
pbecotte
AWS came in here and asked us to stop swarming their status page during the S3 outage
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the_common_man
And of course, https://status.stripe.com says everything is up and fine...
dante_dev
Likely the corporate website availability is not related in any way to the API availability (different servers)
Silhouette
Stripe's status page distinguishes between API, dashboard, stripe.js and checkout.js.

Right now it says none of the above had any problems today.

VeejayRampay
Because the problem seems to be with the corporate website, which is none of the above.
Silhouette
Yes, that was my point...
VeejayRampay
Reading your post again, it's obvious that I misread the tone or the contents. My bad.
Silhouette
No, mine, I should have been clearer. Sorry.
[dead] bengrunfeld
Are they able to take payments at the moment, or is their entire system down?
beat
I'm noticing other sites suddenly nonperformant or offline as well (Fitbit, Facebook for two). I wonder if there's some broadband thing going on.
yammajr
Reddit, Hacker News for two more here.
collinmanderson
ditto. all websites started loading slow for me around 12:45 eastern. I'm on Comcast business from South Bend, Indiana

Update: I've created a separate thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637412

yammajr
Also comcast.

    >tracert news.ycombinator.com
    ....
    Tracing route to news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net [104.20.43.44]
    over a maximum of 30 hops:

      8    12 ms    12 ms    12 ms  be-10563-pe01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.82.158]
      9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
     10     *      161 ms   149 ms  104.20.43.44
beat
I'm on Comcast, which might explain a lot.
joshmn
And Comcast in Minneapolis.
lettergram
I'm actually having problems on Verizon as well, so I don't think it's just a Comcast problem.
funwithjustin
Same on Xfinity in Oakland. What could cause this?!
beat
Comcast sucking?
jetrink
I'm getting 50% packet loss on RCN in Chicago and both of the company's support lines give a busy signal when called.
collinmanderson
I'm on the phone with Comcast now, but I'm having trouble convincing the guy there's a problem :)
delinka
You've got to drop actual technical data on them. Are you seeing complete routes to some destinations and not others? Do the incomplete routes stop inside Comcast's network?
edwinwee
The site stripe.com is experiencing issues loading for some -- the API is unaffected. We're working to bring the site back up now.
edwinwee
The site is loading now, and we're continuing to monitor. It had trouble loading for some between 17:31–18:10 UTC.
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blinger
there seems to be a service disruption at the provider level somewhere, not really tied to any single company/website.
colemannugent
There seems to be a spike across many major services according to http://downdetector.com/

That is just user reports though, so they all could be symptoms of a greater issue.

oferzelig
I can't see how this post hit HN's homepage. Too random/minor to deserve a thread.
jrbruce
Probably because it seems to be affecting more than just Stripe. Seems to be an issue with Comcast at a very broad level. A variety of sites aren't resolving and are experiencing major packet losses trying to connect.