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It was reported 9 hours ago... and it's still down?

A week or two ago, the Haskell website was down for the greater part of a weekend.

Digging through Hacker News history, Haskell.org was periodically reported down between 7 and 14 years ago.

I suspect the volunteer resources behind language projects have half-hearted DevOps.

So the surprising thing to me is not that php.net is down for hours, but that people care to report it.


Are you seriously comparing a niche language almost nobody uses vs the language that runs the majority of websites?

I think you’re overstating the usage of Haskell.

Hardly everyone uses it.

Jokes aside, I think you’ll be surprised to learn that the DevOps effort for most official programming language resources are surprisingly alike, regardless of their popularity.


OTOH static sites are an obvious solution for high resilience, low effort devops, and low cost hosting.

They could decouple the comments section to a dynamic API + minimal client-side code. Even if the API and/or DB go down, all the pages of the site will keep working.

I would think reliability and uptime are high priorities for a language that could almost be considered critical infrastructure at this point... but what do I know.


If I understand it correctly the site is managed more like a hobby/private website.

There is no company behind with sys admin 24h support.


what about the PHP Foundation?

https://thephp.foundation/




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