I understand posting about outages of critical infrastructure (like us-east-1) or interactive websites. But this is a non-interactive website, whose only purpose is delivering text (PHP docs) and maybe some binaries. The few people working on PHP projects on a Sunday may not have access to the official docs for a while. But they can just hop onto the Wayback Machine and carry on with their work.
For the manual (of which, I insist, coders should have an offline copy - they have been available since forever and prudence dictates), there is a backup site, apparently, at
When latency and pageload was in seconds instead of milliseconds, downloading the documentation as a Windows Help file improved my efficiency.
This is a "kids these days" post. Maybe in a few years "The connection to the data center hosting the 1000 GPUs that run the LLM I ask how to do stuff is down, I can't get any work done!"
There's absolutely nothing preventing anyone from downloading the docs. However, search engines won't return results from your local .hlp files and there are plenty of cases where the comments underneath a manual page give context for edge cases that wasn't necessarily described in the docs.
I personally rely on the local documentation in my IDE because I can't be bothered to continuously update my docs with the latest errata and additions.
