As a European solo developer, I’ve switched entirely to European alternatives for all my infrastructure since the beginning of the year.
Cloudflare > Bunny.net
AWS > Hetzner
Business email > Infomaniak
Not a single client site has experienced downtime, and it feels great to finally decouple from U.S. services.
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waffletower
I made a picture of myself taking a picture of myself taking a picture of my self in a mirror... at some point I solved my halting problem and walked away.
mhb
Three down detectors walk into a bar. The bartender asks them if they're all up. The first says "I don't know". The second says "I don't know". The third says "Yes".
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mylons
This is GOLD Jerry, Gold.
but who detects the down detector detecting the down detector detecting the down detector
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jesperwe
Yeah we had a good laugh when Downdetector was down during the Cloudflare outage yesterday. So this is appropriate. +1
4ndrewl
But we need another one to detect whether yours is still up.
It's downdetectorsdown all the way down.
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BrenBarn
Sup dawg, I heard you like down detectors.
ZeroConcerns
Thank you for your service! Now, for an even bigger challenge: since it seems the increased demand for the Cloudflare status page brought down Amazon CloudFront for a bit as well, build a new CDN capable of handling that load as well...
I have similar project like this: https://hostbeat.info/
More like t uptime robot and sure, I was really surprised yesterday how many alerts I have got and how many notifications were sent yesterday for this system users. Good work anyway
Retr0id
How does it detect up-ness?
Downdetector was indeed down during the cf outage, but I think the index page was still returning 200 (although I didn't check).
Running a headless browser to take a screenshot to check would probably get you blocked by cf...
moi2388
How long before we can do REST over downdetectors?
josefresco
I randomly started vibe coding a website monitoring tool last week knowing full well about the mature competitors in this space and questioning myself along the way. Doesn't seem so crazy now.
mobilene
It's stuff like this that makes me still love the Internet.
dapoyo
I had this same idea when I got the "Unblock challenges.cloudflare.com" error while trying to access downdetector, lol!
It looks really nice, good job!
calebm
To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
Things might soon get bad enough that we will start calling them "up detectors."
ricq
Is it hosted on Cloudflare?
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goopypoop
and i still can't find any feathers
ulf-77723
Nice! Who doesn’t like a good recursion? Fingers crossed that the down detector for down detector won’t be down, when down detector might be down
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theturtlemoves
isisitdowndown.com is still free
alentred
Niiice! Thank you for the laugh.
I wonder though where is it hosted? Digital Ocean? :)
As the Web becomes more and more entangled, I don't know if there is any guarantee of what is really independent. We should make a diagram of this. Hopefully no cyclic dependencies there yet.
jojobas
Make sure to host it at us-east-1 and proxy by cloudflare for good measure.
p_v_doom
quid custodiet ipso custodes, amirite?
makach
Slippery slope- just matter of time before someone makes a downdetector for the downdetector for downdetector. Ad nauseum.
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josteink
If my checks are correct, this site uses Cloudflare for DNS and AWS for hosting.
So if any of the things you want to know is down is down, chances are this site will be too ;)
spiffyk
Now if you make one for isup.me, you could call it isisupup.me
cweagans
Ah, now we know that the answer to "who watches the watchers?" is "@gusowen". :D
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Brajeshwar
“Well, who’s gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors?”
gblargg
Would it be a good idea to have a second instance of this watching the first one? /s
As a European solo developer, I’ve switched entirely to European alternatives for all my infrastructure since the beginning of the year.
Cloudflare > Bunny.net
AWS > Hetzner
Business email > Infomaniak
Not a single client site has experienced downtime, and it feels great to finally decouple from U.S. services.
I made a picture of myself taking a picture of myself taking a picture of my self in a mirror... at some point I solved my halting problem and walked away.
Three down detectors walk into a bar. The bartender asks them if they're all up. The first says "I don't know". The second says "I don't know". The third says "Yes".
This is GOLD Jerry, Gold.
but who detects the down detector detecting the down detector detecting the down detector
Yeah we had a good laugh when Downdetector was down during the Cloudflare outage yesterday. So this is appropriate. +1
But we need another one to detect whether yours is still up.
It's downdetectorsdown all the way down.
Sup dawg, I heard you like down detectors.
Thank you for your service! Now, for an even bigger challenge: since it seems the increased demand for the Cloudflare status page brought down Amazon CloudFront for a bit as well, build a new CDN capable of handling that load as well...
there is also https://isdowndetectordown.com/
I have similar project like this: https://hostbeat.info/ More like t uptime robot and sure, I was really surprised yesterday how many alerts I have got and how many notifications were sent yesterday for this system users. Good work anyway
How does it detect up-ness?
Downdetector was indeed down during the cf outage, but I think the index page was still returning 200 (although I didn't check).
Running a headless browser to take a screenshot to check would probably get you blocked by cf...
How long before we can do REST over downdetectors?
I randomly started vibe coding a website monitoring tool last week knowing full well about the mature competitors in this space and questioning myself along the way. Doesn't seem so crazy now.
It's stuff like this that makes me still love the Internet.
I had this same idea when I got the "Unblock challenges.cloudflare.com" error while trying to access downdetector, lol!
It looks really nice, good job!
To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976670
Semi-related: Datadog recently created https://updog.ai
Things might soon get bad enough that we will start calling them "up detectors."
Is it hosted on Cloudflare?
and i still can't find any feathers
Nice! Who doesn’t like a good recursion? Fingers crossed that the down detector for down detector won’t be down, when down detector might be down
isisitdowndown.com is still free
Niiice! Thank you for the laugh.
I wonder though where is it hosted? Digital Ocean? :)
As the Web becomes more and more entangled, I don't know if there is any guarantee of what is really independent. We should make a diagram of this. Hopefully no cyclic dependencies there yet.
Make sure to host it at us-east-1 and proxy by cloudflare for good measure.
quid custodiet ipso custodes, amirite?
Slippery slope- just matter of time before someone makes a downdetector for the downdetector for downdetector. Ad nauseum.
If my checks are correct, this site uses Cloudflare for DNS and AWS for hosting.
So if any of the things you want to know is down is down, chances are this site will be too ;)
Now if you make one for isup.me, you could call it isisupup.me
Ah, now we know that the answer to "who watches the watchers?" is "@gusowen". :D
“Well, who’s gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors?”
Would it be a good idea to have a second instance of this watching the first one? /s