Registry downtime 2014-02-16
Severity: Major
Category: Network
Service: npm
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Overview
The npm registry and website were mostly down for about 40 minutes today.
Impact
The npm registry and website were mostly down
Trigger
network issues with our hosting provider, Joyent, possibly related to a DDoS attack on another provider at that same facility.
Detection
The npm registry and website were mostly down for about 40 minutes today, from 6.51pm to 7.33pm Pacific Time.
Resolution
mirroring package binaries (current hosted in only one DC) to another location, so that Fastly (our CDN provider) can fall back to them when the main DC is unavailable
Root Cause
network issues with our hosting provider, Joyent, possibly related to a DDoS attack on another provider at that same facility.