Comment by FlyingSnake
3 days ago
HN is literally the website I open to check if I have internet connectivity. HN is truly a shining beacon in the trashy landscape of web bloat.
3 days ago
HN is literally the website I open to check if I have internet connectivity. HN is truly a shining beacon in the trashy landscape of web bloat.
I like to use example.com/net/org
bonus, these have both http & https endpoints if you needed a differential diagnosis or just a means to trip some shitty airline/hotel walled garden into saying hello.
https://neverssl.com :)
httpS://neverssl.com?
I usually load my blog to check internet connectivity.
I work at an e-waste recycling company. Earlier this week, I had to test a bunch of laptop docking stations, so I kept force refreshing my blog to see if the Ethernet port worked. Thing is, it loads so fast, I kept the dev tools open to see if it actually refreshed.
yep, I do exactly the same thing. If HN isn't loading, something is definitely fckd.
Except when HN itself is fckd.
It does happen less than it used to, but still.
(Edit: Btw, it's fine to say 'fucked' or other swear words on HN - we don't care about profanity and aren't Bowdlers. I add this because people sometimes misinterpret https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html that way, assuming that we want drawing-room politness.)
Oh it's lwn.net for me!
I find pinging localhost a bit more reliable, and faster too.
I blame HN switching to AWS. Downtime also increased after the switch.
When did you notice HN switching to AWS, and what changed?
(Those are trick questions, because we haven't switched to AWS. But I genuinely would like to hear the answers.)
(We did switch to AWS briefly when our hosting provider went down because of a bizarre SSD self-bricking incident a few years ago...but it was only for a day or two!)