Travel websites are down? Airbnb.com, Expedia.com

penagwin|4 years ago

AWS and/or Akamai are having service issues - naturally both of their status pages are green.

Why the heck are status pages so useless here?

econnors|4 years ago

akamai reporting issues now https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/

losvedir|4 years ago

Ha, how do you end up reaching for "travel websites"? Like, what is the shared technology that they use that general internet sites don't? I clicked into the comments hoping to learn something interesting about the travel industry (like maybe Airbnb and Expedia and others are all part of some conglomerate - like how many of the dating websites are actually one company).

But, yeah, general infrastructure being down and affecting all kinds of disparate (travel and non-travel) sites makes sense and is boring.

Reminds me of an interesting study where researchers gave a list of numbers with some hidden property and let people ask if other numbers have that property, to try to figure out what it was. And people tend to generate numbers that agree with their hypothesis, to try to confirm it, rather than numbers that disagree, to disprove it. Wish I could find that study.

D13Fd|4 years ago

Travel websites actually do use certain shared back-end systems in some cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system

jader201|4 years ago

> and is boring

This is actually helpful to see a lot of unrelated sites affected by (likely) a similar cause. I've had issues with a couple different sites, and it's good to see confirmation that it's not just me.

Particularly since a) the number of affected sites appears to be growing, and b) as the downtime continues to increase.

chrisgoman|4 years ago

https://downdetector.com/

uaas|4 years ago

Not just travel sites, it’s Akamai/AWS probably: https://downdetector.com/

blondie9x|4 years ago

This is updated -> https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/

meibo|4 years ago

Steam is down: https://steamstat.us/

jader201|4 years ago

aminozuur|4 years ago

Agoda's up: https://www.agoda.com