Senior Forums Really Slow?

[911]

Seems to be back to normal as of now.

 

[JustDave]

Anyone else finding SF really slow.

This is the third day of the orange line scrolling across the top.

Yes, I've been wondering about it the last couple of days. But another forum I'm on was slow too. Not as slow as SF, though. I thought it was me.

 

[JustDave]

Just showed up on Yahoo News:
Breaking News: Major outage impacts much of the internet

 

[911]

It’s OK here where I am. What’s going on?

 

[MACKTEXAS]

I think there are 2 threads (last I noticed)

I only found this thread, though.

My mistake, sorry

Not that it matters very much, but actually, there are 2 threads. As slow as everything was yesterday, I was having trouble finding both of them.

Here they are:
Is anyone having problems with this site now? (link to OP)

Senior Forums Really Slow? (link to OP)

Whatever . . . as of right now site is fast, thankfully.

 

[debodun]

Last evening my cable and all it's services (Internet, phone and TV) had an outage four about an hour. No explanation - maybe sunspots?

 

[Ronni]

AWS (Amazon Web services) was the culprit. Amazon isn’t just a seller of goods. It also provides extensive web services to large companies, some of whom then provide internet to the consumer.

Some of the larger companies impacted were Snapchat, Venmo, Roblox, Xfinity, Amazon prime, Duolingo, Whatnot, Rainbow Six Siege, Coinbase, Goodreads, Ring, The New York Times, Life360, Fortnite, Apple TV, Verizon, Chime, McDonald’s App, and a host of others, many of which affected sites like SF.

Initially it was thought to be a major hack, but apparently it turned out to be some kind of internal software glitch.

The problem was thought to be fixed, but then it went down again, so there were more massive problem solving efforts which stabilized AWS which then fixed consumer issuers, hopefully permanently.

 

[Pink Biz]

Much better for me this morning, almost "normal."

 

[JustDave]

AWS (Amazon Web services) was the culprit.

That and something to do with limitations of the cloud.

 

[oldman]

Everything is good here.

 

[Murrmurr]

Last evening my cable and all it's services (Internet, phone and TV) had an outage four about an hour. No explanation - maybe sunspots?

Interesting theory, Deb. I watched some news stories yesterday about a major plasma storm on the sun that's expected to cause various problems for a few days, including natural ones like wild weather, earthquakes, volcanic activity and stuff.

 

[Murrmurr]

Today, I'm only able to open SF on my system's private window. (Mozilla)

 

[Pinky]

The site is running normal for me, today.