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By adamg on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 3:02pm

BGR reports that Amazon Web Services, which many Web sites use (not this one, but whatevs) is having some East Coast issues right now. Among the sites knocked offline: The T's commuter-rail call center, which provides an alternate number.

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By kernelPanic on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 3:16pm.

Is the AWS status dashboard. They are pretty good about rapid updates and when massive stuff goes pear-shaped their after-action post-mortem writeups are usually very interesting reads:

https://status.aws.amazon.com/

By Lecil on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 7:28pm.

Today what ever ailed S3 ailed their own dashboard and it took around an hour to be updated
with correct information.

The twitterverse had a ball with that one!

By cybah on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 3:47pm.

But isn't your CDN apart of that "bug" that was found a few days ago?

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/crazy-cloudflare-bug-jeopardized-millions-...

By adamg on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 4:13pm.

But it only affected sites trying to protect private info, which I'm not doing (well, not via a CDN). Not boasting here - I SHOULD finally break down and look at SSL - but no Cloudbleed here.

By turlach on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 4:57pm.

just setup let's encrypt. It's free, easy to setup and has been pretty solid.

By adamg on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 5:04pm.

Will take a look. The basic encryption is not the hard part (in fact, a while ago I had an SSL section of the site for handling transactions, and Cloudflare offers SSL); I need to look at how to handle ads based on third-party servers (such as Google); I realize nobody likes ads, but they mostly pay the bills :-).

By Gary C on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 6:30pm.

Keep the content coming! (Please.)