>Yikes, that is bad. rhcloud.com is actually OpenShift, the project I work >on. Do you know if this was because poorly written code or the service >itself?
I do not know for sure. If you have access to the code/logs, the site is bigcottonwoodcanyonmarathon.com - the date is Sep 14, 2013 MST afternoon times. I find it rather suspicious that the downtime was immediately after the race when more than the normal number of people are looking at the results. So I am thinking it was site-caused rather than cloud caused. If I were to make an educated guess, I would expect the problem to have come from something like SELECT * FROM results ORDER BY place LIMIT $N,$PAGE_SIZE which is how your average web developer will solve the paging problem on first try instead of having a key on place and doing SELECT * FROM results WHERE place > $N ORDER BY place LIMIT $PAGE_SIZE, and when a few people hit it at once in combination with the cloud limiting resources, we have a problem. -- Sasha Pachev Fast Running Blog. http://fastrunningblog.com Run. Blog. Improve. Repeat. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
