Proton Global Outage

(status.proton.me)

40 points | by alexjplant 18 hours ago ago

29 comments

  • cmg 17 hours ago ago
    • ghastmaster 16 hours ago ago

      I am curious how you found that URL? There is no link to it on their general status page.

      • ghastmaster 16 hours ago ago

        Found it. Click on "Global Outage" In the orange top bar. Hard to find when there are three different colors for hyperlinks on one page.

  • jshandling 17 hours ago ago

    Why does a cooling failure in one datacenter brick the entire ecosystem? Reliability 101 to have redundancy here I'd think...

    • jshandling 16 hours ago ago

      > We are currently in the process of shifting traffic to our backups sites

      Manually?!

      • Geof25 16 hours ago ago

        I guess multiple datacenter hosting and automatic switch over should be the resulting solution of this incident

        • hexagonsun 16 hours ago ago

          click the words "global outage" on the main status page

    • cyberpunk 16 hours ago ago

      I have to admit, this one has pissed me right off. I build systems that survive datacentre failures all the fucking time, it's inexcusable that a single site going dark removes access to something I pay like 200 euro a year for.

      • jshandling 16 hours ago ago

        guess it's the same ol' reliability doesn't get prioritized until something like this happens story

        • abnercoimbre 16 hours ago ago

          Back online for me ~2 hours later. Jesus.

          • Jenk 15 hours ago ago

            Just for anecdata: I'm using simplelogin to alias my emails and I can see there is a 20ish minute window between when Simplelogin receives an email, to when it finally shows up in my Proton inbox. Normally it's an inconsequential delay.

            Not sure if that indicates how much of a backlog of emails Proton has because of this outage, or if the DR infra is just that much slower?

  • abnercoimbre 18 hours ago ago

    I can't access anything right now. Blocked from my files in Proton Drive. No emails. Nothing. Can't work at all.

  • gradstudent 17 hours ago ago

    How is it the browser extension doesn't have a local cache? It seems like basic functionality. I'm having to copy passwords by hand from the mobile app, which does have a local cache.

    Anyway, it's a good reminder: self-host all the things!

    • bsoles 17 hours ago ago

      Mine does. I am able to login to the browser extension with my password and see all my passwords. I think there was a setting to enable local caching somewhere.

    • DavideNL 12 hours ago ago

      It does have a local cache. It's a setting by the way called "Pass offline mode - enabled."

      And it's enabled by default.

  • lillesvin 18 hours ago ago

    Last thing I saw before my Proton Mail stopped responding was the "how are we doing?" survey modal, which I dismissed because I just wanted to get to my email.

    Hope it's nothing too bad.

  • windward 18 hours ago ago

    > Proton Pass

    >> Browser Extensions: Major Outage

    A nice reminder to keep passwords offline.

    • lillesvin 18 hours ago ago

      Don't they keep a local copy like Bitwarden does?

      • DavideNL 12 hours ago ago

        They do.

        In the web browser extension it's a setting called "Pass offline mode", and it's enabled by default.

      • windward 17 hours ago ago

        who knows? https://i.imgur.com/PwobLhW.png

        (IDK if there's a more accessible alternative to imgur now)

      • thoughtpalette 17 hours ago ago

        Mobile app seems to work, browser app doesn't seem to work at all.

  • undefined 17 hours ago ago
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  • rapnie 18 hours ago ago
  • AndrewKemendo 10 hours ago ago

    I’m paying for Proton enterprise and it is not demonstrating any value over the major providers as of late.

  • didacusc 17 hours ago ago

    Still down

  • colordrops 18 hours ago ago

    Just as I was trying to get a 2fa email for a time-critical payment...