[frik]

https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus on https://status.gitlab.com mentions Azure cloud several times.

  "The rsync to *Azure* SSD got interrupted last night 
  when we had an outage. Restarting it now." - 18th Dec

  "This means service will partially restore over the next
  few minutes and then go away again once the *Azure* 
  restart command succeeds." 

  "Looks like we are headed for the ‘double restart’ 
  scenario. The NFS server came back on its own but 
  *Azure* is still busy restarting it."

  "*Azure* restart of the NFS server is in progress"

  "Depending on whether the machine is stuck or already 
  rebooting. No way to tell with *Azure*."

  "*Azure* CLI restart of the NFS server finished, that is 
  usually a good sign."

  "We are experimenting with copying data out of our 
  current *Azure* storage account. Unfortunately the 
  copying affects http://gitlab.com" - 1st Dez

  "Azure incident quote: Network Infrastructure and 
  Storage - East US 2 - Partial Service Interruption 
  [East US 2]" - 11. Nov

  "Seems to be a major @azure outage..." - 11th Nov

  "At 18:00UTC we will start migrating PostgreSQL to Azure 
  Premium Storage gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ope… , expect 15 
  minutes downtime." - 10. Nov

  "trying another Azure restart of the NFS server " - 6th Nov

  "In the last 24h, we had two reboots of our Redis server 
  seemingly caused by Azure (no kernel panics) and VHD 
  read errors on the NFS server" - 5th Nov

  "Azure are sponsoring us so we are saving a lot on our 
  hosting bill. We are documenting the move on an upcoming 
  blog post." - 16th Oct

There have appearently been really big troubles, starting in November! Is Azure cloud that bad or is it a problem on your side? What about moving to AWS/Google/Rackspace?

[sytse]

We moving to metal on Softlayer. See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/14

[frik]

Thanks for the info. All the best with the transition to IBM Softlayer.

[sytse]

Thanks!