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 or that other place.
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:
nothing known
Previous issues:
Sun Oct 6 20:03:31 EDT 2024:
I think I have worked around the recent problem with comments pages randomly loading at the bottom instead of the top.
It looks like Cloudflare started randomly double-request pages, only sometimes, and maybe only from some cities,
which was causing the last-read pointer to update before you ever saw the page. Fortunately I'm able to distinguish
the first bogus request from the second real one, and am simply skipping that pointer update when we detect the first one.
Hopefully that is a sufficient workaround.
It took a while to track down because I couldn't reproduce the problem myself until I did a brief road trip to a city which
has its own local Cloudflare data center...
Live basic health check:
(very basic and not always reliable; we have a better one internally)
It's probably time I updated this picture from June 2008.
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