Social content site Reddit seems to be down at the moment. While I don’t usually report on server outages this one seems interesting because the site is not even returning the standard “Reddit is broken” sign. Instead, it returns a 500 Internal server error or nothing at all. With all the recent botnet ddos attacks, it makes me wonder if Reddit is on the receiving end of something similar?
*update: and, it’s back. Although the site was down for 3 hours, there aren’t any visible new features on the site or explanations on the official blog.
I don’t even get a 500, it just times out on my end.
Thanks for posting, though, I was starting to wonder if I was experimenting BOFHing from my beloved firewall admins.
@anonymous: it has been down for several hours now. I know it’s night or early morning in the US, but still, 3 hours outage sounds serious.