Cloud & Operations
- Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
- Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
- Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads
- Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
- AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
- Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
- Grok outage
- Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
- ChatGPT outage – Resolved
- Claude outage – Resolved
- GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?
- Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved
- Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?
- OTel isn’t going well
- The August 17 outage
- Degraded performance for multiple models
- Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
- Incident with Github.com [resolved]
- Cloudflare's AI Psychosis
- My server is a phone now
- GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
- Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
- Turn And Face The Strange
- IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center
- Self-host your mail server
- The death and rebirth of my home server
- Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
- AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
- Telegram Serverless
- Cloudflare Drop
- How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
- Podman v6.0.0
- Immich 3.0
- Elevated error rate across multiple models
- Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
- Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct
- How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
- What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes
- Hetzner Price Adjustment
- OneDrive data now has an expiry date
- Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests
- Cloudflare Flagship
- Incident with Actions and Pages
- Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
- Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
- Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
- Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
- GitHub is sinking
- I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
- AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved
- Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
- Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
- Days without GitHub incidents
- Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
- PyInfra 3.8.0
- Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]
- Ghostty is leaving GitHub
- Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API
- An update on GitHub availability
- GitHub is having issues now
- Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
- Incident with multple GitHub services
- I am building a cloud
- Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image
- Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
- Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
- €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
- Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code
- Fuck the cloud (2009)
- Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
- WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
- Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
- Claude.ai down
- Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers
- S3 Files
- Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
- Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
- Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents
- Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai
- Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai
- Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
- GitHub's Historic Uptime
- GitHub is once again down
- GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability
- Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
- Bucketsquatting is finally dead
- My Homelab Setup
- Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
- A decade of Docker containers
- GitHub having issues [resolved]
- AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE
- Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)
- Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%
- Another GitHub outage in the same day
- An Update on Heroku
- AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
- Days since last GitHub incident
- Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
- Cloudflare outage should not have happened
- Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
- Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud
- Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)
- We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
- A postmortem of three recent issues
- I ditched Docker for Podman
- GitHub was having issues
- Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts
- Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin
- Apptainer: Application Containers for Linux
- I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)
- But how to get to that European cloud?
- Mozilla site down due to "overdue hosting payments" [fixed]
- 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure
- Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker
- Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS
- Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
- We Need to Talk About Docker Hub
- So you want to build your own data center
- Firebase bill is usually $50, but I was surprised to see a $70k bill in one day
- GitHub Git Operations Are Down
- Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
- I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
- Why aren't we all serverless yet?
- The Evolution of SRE at Google
- Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?
- Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server
- Why we use our own hardware
- "Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers"
- Install postmarketOS on Android phone and use Docker as a home server
- Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%
- Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
- Comparing AWS S3 with Cloudflare R2: Price, Performance and User Experience
- I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
- I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever
- Fly.io outage – resolved
- Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)
- Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
- Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)
- Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS
- Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
- I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100
- Docker Compose Isn't Enough
- We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix
- Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue
- Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation
- AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner
- Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products
- Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations
- Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users
- Restic: Backups done right
- Show HN: Dead man's switch without reliance on your infra
- Hetzner Object Storage
- I got everything off the cloud and am paying less
- BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH
- Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting
- Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting
- A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff
- Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps
- It is hard to recommend Google Cloud
- Kamal Proxy – A minimal HTTP proxy for zero-downtime deployments
- Show HN: A CLI tool I made to self-host any app with two commands on a VPS
- RabbitMQ 4.0
- Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting
- Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?
- Reclaim the Stack
- Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned
- Home Assistant Presence Simulation
- Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform
- Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
- My IRC client runs on Kubernetes
- Accident Forgiveness
- The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown
- We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency
- GitHub was down
- Vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust
- Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?
- Show HN: Attaching to a virtual GPU over TCP
- How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months
- CrowdStrike's impact on aviation
- Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?
- MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader
- A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes
- Show HN: I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less
- Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
- Let's consign CAP to the cabinet of curiosities
- Ask HN: Why are people paying so much for Vercel?
- Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage
- Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance
- CrowdStrike debacle provides road map of American vulnerabilities to adversaries
- Siblings miss crucial life-extending treatment because of CrowdStrike outage
- Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage
- Tau: Open-source PaaS – A self-hosted Vercel / Netlify / Cloudflare alternative
- Using S3 as a Container Registry
- Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit
- Awsviz.dev simplifying AWS IAM policies
- Region-specific Machines pricing
- Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite
- A Eulogy for DevOps
- AWS Lambda Web Adapter
- The demise of the mildly dynamic website (2022)
- Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct
- The problem with OpenTelemetry
- How Meta trains large language models at scale
- Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers
- Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime
- Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
- FrankenPHP: Modern PHP App Server
- Show HN: File0 – An easier way to manage files in serverless apps
- Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)
- Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers
- Making EC2 boot time faster
- S3 is showing its age
- Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu
- My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
- Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs
- Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers
- Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs
- Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using Python
- How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
- Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify
- Ask HN: Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives?
- Stop Doing Cloud
- Dehydrated: Letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script
- My deployment platform is a shell script
- Glory is only 11MB/sec away (2023)
- Runtipi: Docker-based home server management
- About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024
- Proxmox VE: Import Wizard for Migrating VMware ESXi VMs
- The What, Why and How of Containers
- Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server
- Majority of web apps could just run on a single server
- Linux Crisis Tools
- Oxide Cloud Computer. No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud
- Ask HN: How should organize and back up 23 TiB of personal files?
- Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
- S3 is files, but not a filesystem
- Home Lab Beginners guide
- Show HN: dockerc – Docker image to static executable "compiler"
- Meta outage
- The hater's guide to Kubernetes
- K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due
- Ask HN: Why is HN so often down?
- Hetzner switches to new billing model
- Serverless Horrors
- All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"
- Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site
- Launch HN: Delve (YC W24) – HIPAA compliance as a service
- Recognizing the limitations of cloud drives
- Warning: $14k BigQuery charge in 2 hours
- Moore's Scofflaws
- SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
- Hetzner GPU Server
- Fly.io has GPUs now
- Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx
- Cloud Egress Costs
- Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret
- New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – Rack-mounted pre-configured Linux mainframe
- We might want to regularly keep track of how important each server is
- Learnings from our years of Kubernetes in production
- A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts
- I moved my blog from IPFS to a server
- Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
- Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage
- Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays
- Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup
- Why are we templating YAML? (2019)
- Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off
- Microsoft limits institutional cloud storage space for environmental reasons
- Ditching PaaS: Why I Went Back to Self-Hosting
- Post-mortem for last week's incident at Kagi
- Slashing data transfer costs in AWS
- Show HN: #!/usr/bin/env docker run
- Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative
- The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods
- How Pinterest scaled
- Fly Kubernetes
- Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 years with the leading K8s package manager
- LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud
- Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
- Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise
- Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data
- The Curse of Docker
- Fast self-hostable open-source workflow engine
- Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT
- Terraform Cloud Pricing Changes Sticker Shock
- Moving from AWS to Bare-Metal saved us $230k per year
- AWS to start charging for IPv4 usage, but critical services don't support IPv6
- Major outages across ChatGPT and API
- Go, Containers, and the Linux Scheduler