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Chicago VPS6.NET network down?
I got (another) pingdom alert telling me my VPS went down - which it did, HTTP, FTP, and SSH all timed out - except when I went to VPS6.NET to complain, their site is down too...it's been 13 minutes (or am I the only one seeing this?)
EDIT: of course it comes up after I post this, but still - the entire network went down for 15 minutes?
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Film at 11?
your title is misleading. which datacenter are you in?
More likely they got hit by a DDoS and it affected their whole network before it was blackholed.
yeah I realize that now, chicago
ENTIRE INTERNET IS DOWN OMG
based on your post history here on let, you need to sit stuff out before you run here and bitch.
I thought it was fair to run here and bitch when my VPS has constant network disruptions for 5 days, and this wasn't a run here and bitch - this was a "any ideas what's up, I'm not a network engineer but I found it strange that everything went down at once"
Another of these threads..
Have you asked VPS6 about it? That might be a good start.
open a ticket. if you don't get a response, poke at them. if you don't get a response for more than a few days, poke them again. if there's one thing vps6 is good at, it's responding to tickets. and there's the chris parr/naruto variety show on live chat.
It will be difficult to open a support ticket.
be patient.
It seems there was a brief ISP outage that affected some areas of the world, likely networks/ISPs routing through nLayer. We've confirmed that the issue has been resolved. I apologize for the inconvenience.
mystery solved
We saw a network-level outage affecting our Chicago network; whether nLayer or one of our other peers was responsible, I'm unsure at this moment. Things are back to normal now. I apologize for the few moments of unavailability.
nLayer
/me shakes fist
Aren't hosts supposed to put their own website on a redundant network? (i.e. a competitor) :P
It's generally ideal, but we would then lose the advantage of having direct access to all of our backend infrastructure. All in all, 7-8 minutes of downtime every several months doesn't hurt too much. :-)
Had another report of an outage in Chicago today, unless siteground is hosted in the same facility.
I had my site over at HostGator, mainly because it was "guaranteed" to not die on me, the only downside is that I had to wait hours to get ports opened for some web-apps.
uhhhh....huh?
@fly
is it also wrong to run here and bitch when I have another 7 hours of downtime (and counting)?
Yes. Open up a support ticket (if you can). If not give them atleast a day or so to sort it out or atleast let you know what's going on. Work with them instead of posting publicly immediately.
I cannot believe this now, to think I was about to switch VPS nodes....