[_0vzt]

I'm responsible for hosting the website (I'm not the author of the post). Just wanted to say sorry for the outage. Issue was triggered by an aggressive uptime monitor which was freaking out at some slower-than-usual response times mid-HN-hug. Will tweak the uptime monitor

[secondbreakfast]

(Author here).

^I host my blog on blot.im - it is an amazing service, and fully recommend it. Thanks David!

[thaumasiotes]

> Just wanted to say sorry for the outage. Issue was triggered by an aggressive uptime monitor which was freaking out at some slower-than-usual response times mid-HN-hug.

What is the theory behind this? If response times are too slow, how is terminating service supposed to help? Who is it supposed to help?

[_0vzt]

The timeout for the requests issued by the uptime monitor was set a little too low – the uptime monitor mistakenly believed the service was not responding (it was, but slowly)