<story><title>DNS Outage at DigitalOcean</title><url>https://status.digitalocean.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tonylemesmer</author><text>People hating on DO &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m losing thousands every hour&amp;quot;. Well then should have had some failover in place if its that valuable.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;rodrigoespinosa&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;713035637020971009&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;rodrigoespinosa&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;71303563702097100...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zackelan</author><text>For an example of this taken to a ludicrous extreme, several years ago an AWS user complained that downtime of a few EC2 instances were putting lives at risk. They were hosting cardiac monitoring services on single EC2 instances with no multi-AZ or multi-region capability.&lt;p&gt;AWS forum post: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;thread.jspa?threadID=65649&amp;amp;tstart=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;thread.jspa?threadID=65649&amp;amp;tst...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Previous HN discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=2477345&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=2477345&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>DNS Outage at DigitalOcean</title><url>https://status.digitalocean.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tonylemesmer</author><text>People hating on DO &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m losing thousands every hour&amp;quot;. Well then should have had some failover in place if its that valuable.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;rodrigoespinosa&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;713035637020971009&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;rodrigoespinosa&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;71303563702097100...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crisopolis</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been reading all the comments on Twitter also... like &amp;quot;err mai gawd I&amp;#x27;m switching to AWS because of this&amp;quot; and your failure to not have a secondary DNS provider, but I highly doubt you&amp;#x27;d switch.&lt;p&gt;Then another...
&amp;quot;Today&amp;#x27;s @digitalocean DNS #outage is a reminder to not trust your entire business to one provider. Spread the love around!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If your company is e-commerce and makes money by being 99.99% available. It&amp;#x27;s your own fault for no fail-over.&lt;p&gt;another... &amp;quot;.@digitalocean that&amp;#x27;s two hours without DNS now...my company&amp;#x27;s websites could be losing thousands of £ in e-commerce! Please, an update!&amp;quot;</text></comment>