No, you're not crazy, part of the internet *is* broken

[jayfish]

Source: CNET

While the internet is not a series of tubes, it can get bogged down sometimes.

Currently Amazon Web Services, which (at the most basic level) hosts many of your favorite sites (like us, right? right?!) is experiencing some issues at the moment. Which means much of the internet is experiencing everything from minor to major issues.

It's not even a little clear what's causing the problem, but the AWS page above has this message: "We're continuing to work to remediate the availability issues for Amazon S3 in US-EAST-1. AWS services and customer applications depending on S3 will continue to experience high error rates as we are actively working to remediate the errors in Amazon S3."

Read more: https://www.cnet.com/news/no-the-internet-is-not-broken-amazon-web-services-is-just-having-issues/

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Don't ya love "the cloud"?

[denbot]

1. No problem here.

So Cal, fiber optic.

[CottonBear]

2. The healthcare.gov login isn't working.

I have been trying to login to my account for over an hour now. I'm redirected to a page that says:

We're making HealthCare.gov even better!

(en Español)

Sorry you can’t get what you need right now. Please come back and visit again later. In the meantime, you can check out health plans and prices in your area.

Estamos mejorado CuidadoDeSalud.gov

Disculpe, no hemos podido encontrar lo que usted necesita. Por favor, vuelva más tarde. Mientras puede ver los planes y precios disponibles en su área.

Edit: I can't even use the hyperlink in the redirect notice to "check out health plans and prices in your area."

[OKNancy]

3. My daughter said today was like a snow-day for her business

She does inbound marketing. Has her own little company and uses a lot of the services that are down right now.

[Vinca]

4. That explains it. I've tried to get onto a number of sites without luck.

[mahina]

5. WP portal confirms:

"Amazon Issues Affecting User Portal and WP Engine Tools
Posted February 28th, 2017 12:08pm

Issue is active
Update 1:45PM Central: Amazon continue to experience high error rates with S3, which is impacting various AWS services. They are working hard at repairing S3, believe they understand root cause, and are working on implementing what they believe will remediate the issue.

Update 12:55PM Central: Amazon are continuing to work to remediate the availability issues for Amazon S3. AWS services and customer applications depending on S3 will continue to experience high error rates as they are actively working to remediate the errors in Amazon S3. Media coverage confirms the widespread impact of this issue.

Update 12:30PM Central: Amazon has identified the issue and is currently working to resolve the issues.

Update: https://status.aws.amazon.com/ as noted by Amazon issues are occurring with their service and is impacting a large part of the Internet that utilizes Amazon services. We are in contact with Amazon and will provide updates as they can provide them.

Our engineering team has identified an issue with a third party vendor that is impacting the performance of the User Portal. This may mean that the ability to join a Live Chat session, view backups, or access the User Portal may be intermittent. Our engineers are actively working with our vendor to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. We’ll provide further updates here as they come.
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[Dopers_Greed]

6. Russia?

[Coventina]

7. Our LMS (Learning Management System) is down. Part of the outage.

*sigh*

[byronius]

8. Ha! Couldn't download a .pdf proof of my new book on CreateSpace earlier. Whaddyaknow.

[underpants]

9. Is the porn okay?

Please tell us the porn's okay.

[Codeine]

10. Decided to stream The Fifth Element this morning

since it's my day off. Unwatchable due to buffering.

[Mr.Bill]

11. I've been having some trouble.

I have not been able to type in any responses to threads. I logged out (even this was difficult) and did a restart and logged back in. Now it's working okay. This is the only website this happened on, so it may be something else.