Bad weather, metservice website not working again!

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surfisup1000

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#251018 5-Jun-2019 10:00

Metservice really need to work on their website availability during storms.

Rain radar not loading at all, and I was getting some timeout errors.

503 Service Unavailable

No server is available to handle this request.

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#2251814 5-Jun-2019 10:08

Thought exactly the same - always telling people to stay up to date with warnings/watches etc yet this becomes difficult when their website doesn't work!

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#2251885 5-Jun-2019 10:43

And I thought it was just me.

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surfisup1000

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#2251898 5-Jun-2019 11:01

They really need to look at their management. Clearly cannot deliver a reliable platform.

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#2251902 5-Jun-2019 11:08

To be fair, they're probably trying to run it on a budget that would barely pay to maintain a pair of tin cans and some string. We're not exactly known to be pleased with being taxed for anything, even if we'd be better off for it.

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#2251906 5-Jun-2019 11:15

In my uninformed opinion, it doesn't help that the Metservice seem to be incapable of predicting any kind of actual weather, like a bit of rain or a bit of a breeze, without some kind of watch or warning about it, and of course NZ Herald using words like Severe, Storm, Gale on the main story, so everyone heads over to the Metservice site...

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#2251954 5-Jun-2019 11:39

I think they run it on AWS Sydney - they definitely use AWS and I think they use it for that service. AWS is reliable, but people can foul anything up.

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#2252010 5-Jun-2019 12:13

Any recommendations for an alternative service?

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#2252012 5-Jun-2019 12:15

NIWA, but it's not as comprehensive and no app as far as I know.

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#2252018 5-Jun-2019 12:26

NIWA graphics are quite pretty, but that 2 day rainfall map is annoying - can't see any way to just stop, move 'time' back and forth, can't zoom in, etc

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Dynamike

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#2252102 5-Jun-2019 13:46

I find the weather forecasts at https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/ to be far more accurate than those of the MetService. Nowadays I only use the MetService for the rain radar.

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#2252107 5-Jun-2019 13:55

This is my place here in chch (Brilliant website)

https://www.windy.com/station/pws-f06e4144?-43.543,172.658,8

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#2252121 5-Jun-2019 14:52

timmmay: I think they run it on AWS Sydney - they definitely use AWS and I think they use it for that service. AWS is reliable, but people can foul anything up.

or gamble on the aws spot options..

Dairyxox

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#2252123 5-Jun-2019 14:58

"We expect this outage to be brief" - 5 hours later...

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#2252136 5-Jun-2019 15:13

Dairyxox:

"We expect this outage to be brief" - 5 hours later...

That is brief by their definition!

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#2252148 5-Jun-2019 15:41

gzt:
timmmay: I think they run it on AWS Sydney - they definitely use AWS and I think they use it for that service. AWS is reliable, but people can foul anything up.

or gamble on the aws spot options..

Compute is fairly cheap for moderate workloads, it's disk and bandwidth that will get you. You can auto scale so that you use spot if it's available then on-demand if not. Typically you would reserve some capacity for the base load as well.

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