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Downtime due to Azure datacentre issues

If you had difficulty accessing the site today, it was due to downtime with Microsoft Azure datacentres. Potentially thousands of websites were offline with this issue for around 2.5hrs.

Matters may not be over entirely as I write this. Azure are still cautiously labelling our region as "Warning" status on their service status page: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/status/.

Follow that page for updates if anything happens again. We are in the "West Europe" region.

In the meantime, we are already thinking of ways we can create some kindof backup service in the event that this ever happens again. We didn't expect it would be necessary in the cloud, as availability is generally very reliable with cloud services, but apparently it will. E.g. we may set up services in multiple regions so that we can avoid being dependent on one region.

Looking in to it.

I found 4-5 leagues affected by the same thing, all at the same start time as yours. It seems they were impacted somehow by the downtime earlier, so I've postponed them to the next calendar slot as with the races impacted earlier.

Do they have red stars by any chance? They progress extremely slowly then, almost not at all. I see you are only level 3, so you will need to reach level 4 before it will get easier to train them again. I see the drivers are at your level currently.

See this post for more info http://igpmanager.com/?url=forum-thread_2/5613#42441

Which race? Did you receive any errors? I can't find any broken races in the system, so I'm guessing whatever error you experienced was local.

It shouldn't be related to the Azure stuff, given the time of your race. All races affected by that ran fine today.

Are you using the latest version? What OS/Browser version were you using?

I'm taking stabs in the dark but this is info the viewer dev may find handy.