Statement regarding the ongoing SourceHut outage
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Statement regarding the ongoing SourceHut outage
My name is Drew, I’m the founder of SourceHut and one of three SourceHut staff members working on the outage, alongside my colleagues Simon and Conrad. As you have noticed, SourceHut is down. I offer my deepest apologies for this situation. We have made a name for ourselves for reliability, and this is the most severe and prolonged outage we have ever faced. We spend a lot of time planning to make sure this does not happen, and we failed. We have all hands on deck working the problem to restore service as soon as possible.
In our emergency planning models, we have procedures in place for many kinds of eventualities. What has happened this week is essentially our worst-case scenario: “what if the primary datacenter just disappeared tomorrow?” We ask this question of ourselves seriously, and make serious plans for what we’d do if this were to pass, and we are executing those plans now – though we had hoped that we would never have to.
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LWN ☛ Information on the SourceHut outage
Users of SourceHut will have noticed that the site has been unreachable; Drew DeVault has now posted a report on what is happening (it's a distributed denial-of-service attack) and what is being done to recover.