FARK.com status page

Fark.com status page

This is the status page for Fark's behind-the-scenes geekery. If there's a major outage or problem, we'll try to post something here about it... unless we're too up to our eyeballs in trying to actually fix it... so check here if Fark's hosed for an extended length of time. Normally this page will be blank. :-)

For more minor issues, see Mike's blog, or maybe Drew's Bluesky

Our web/db servers are hosted on Vultr, and they have their own status page.
Our images are hosted on Linode, and they have their own status page.
Both are fronted by Cloudflare, and they have their own status page.
Our email servers, and this outage page, are hosted at Amazon AWS in case of problems with the other hosting companies.

Current known issues:

Thu Jul 9 14:42:24 EDT 2026: We're tracking down slow load times and 502 errors.

Previous issues:

Wed Jul 8 17:20:34 EDT 2026: We're looking at the problem with YouTube videos in comments. We think we have the root cause dealt with. It may not be 100% fixed until 3 am ET, but after that it should be much less likely to happen again.
Update Thu Jul 9 10:49:46 EDT 2026: As expected, YouTube fixed itself at 3 am ET.

Fri Jul 3 19:03:30 EDT 2026: A "page not found" was coming up for pretty much everything for about 10-15 minutes -- fixed now.

Fri Jun 12 12:49:10 EDT 2026: We've been looking at a performance issue that started at almost exactly 9 am ET yesterday (Thursday) that may have caused random 500 errors and slow loading of stuff. We think we narrowed it down to a hypervisor issue affecting our primary load balancer, and that's a cloud provider problem and not something we can directly troubleshoot. Fortunately, manually switching to the secondary load balancer seems to have solved the issue, and that will do until we can wipe and reinstall the primary lb to force it to move to another hypervisor/physical host.

Sat Jun 6 12:09:46 EDT 2026: Messages about email bouncing should now be fixed.

Wed Jun 3 17:37:26 EDT 2026: Email to Microsoft is being delayed again, this time due to an SSL certificate validation issue. Wed Jun 3 20:07:50 EDT 2026: This is resolved now, and a backlog of emails has now been delivered. Microsoft's SMTP server is using a certificate signed by an outdated root, so I had to add that root back into our trust store.

Live basic health check:
(very basic and not always reliable; we have a better one internally)