I attend a course at Coursera by Dan Ariely on Behavior Economics, and he talks about the effect of signing an honor code. Interestingly, his experiments showed that people stopped cheating when signing a honor-code, even if no such code really existed at their university. Being reminded of moral seems to be enough.
I bought a new reserved instance yesterday, and got the email from Amazon about this today. Good thing that "New Reserved Instance prices will only apply to Reserved Instances purchases made on or after March 4th."
I see the same thing. Pingdom reports higher response-time, but no downtime (meaning no alert). Also no alerts from AWS Cloudwatch. I first became aware of the issue when internal api-tests started failing at 9:56am CET. I see users accessing the site, but I don't know how many it's failing for.
No issues in the internal EC2 network. At least, none that I could find. I guess that's the reason why ELB doesn't shift any traffic. The whole issue seems to be on the Internet facing network. Failing routers, maybe.
Pingdom still claims 100% uptime, but New Relic (which includes an equivalent pinging service) reports downtime from time to time. Around 25 timeout alerts into the last couple of hours.
Riot on (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/) is not from Silicon Valley, but a fascinating story about the Finish dot-com company Riot-E. "The company was such a spectacular failure that it was the subject of the award winning documentary Riot On!."
This might be one of the best reasons to have native (mobile) clients. As a web-developer I like the model of writing one web-application to fit all clients, and being able to link to pages etc. But on a slow connection it certainly makes sense not to have to download the GUI before viewing the content. As the author points out, the content from the API is just some hundred bytes.
I use Pingdom, but wish they could monitor more frequently for exactly the reasons you mention. In theory my site can be unavailable for several seconds each minute, without showing downtime in the stats. I signed up for your service, but looks like it is invite only right now?
I think most peoples invites have been approved at the moment.
We have a big release scheduled for Feb. Some cool new features like custom useragent strings and PagerDuty integration are going to be pushed out. We're excited :)
I got this on one of my domains too, and it was because of the private whois information (Domains By Proxy). After I removed that, it worked just fine.
I've been thinking of moving away from GoDaddy for a long time, and this was the last drop. It is crazy how they design the webpages to make it as hard as possible to cancel anything. In the email I got, there were two (identical) links telling me how I could cancel the transfer-request, but no link to accept it. It took me a couple of minutes of poking around in my account before I figured it out.
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