Is it just me or is DevStrike.net running a bit slow, tonight? 09-12-2024

[Wolfswetpaws]

Is it just me or is DevStrike.net running a bit slow, tonight?  09-12-2024

[Snargfargle]

This forum seems to suffer periodic slow-downs and crashes. It was totally offline for several minutes earlier this evening for me.

[Wolfswetpaws]

13 minutes ago, Snargfargle said:

This forum seems to suffer periodic slow-downs and crashes. It was totally offline for several minutes earlier this evening for me.

So, it wasn't just me.
I'm not sure what the cause of the effect is, though.

[HogHammer]

We are at the mercy of several services - Invision and their cloud providers. 

If one of them hiccups, it affects us.  Really, there's not a lot we can do.  Today, there were several major internet issues - Microsoft services, Amazon AWS and ATT (Microsoft pointed fingers at ATT for the outage).  I think if one of the major internet services is down for any period of time it casades through many networks and pretty much effects everyone to a certain level.

Here is a live example of internet issues worldwide:

Internet Outages Map | ThousandEyes