Steemit.com Outage Due to AWS
Starting at 10:05AM PT, a service outage occurred at https://steemit.com. We are writing to inform you that as of now, steemit.com is back up again.
The root cause of the outage was in Amazon Web Services. The outage had nothing to do with either Condenser (steemit.com) or steemd (the Steem blockchain) and api.steemit.com remained operational at all times. An internal networking issue is what caused the services to spontaneously become unavailable.
Steemit will continue to investigate the occurrence as well as liaise with our AWS rep, but at this time all services are fully operational.
Team Steemit
Business as usual.
Connections to Amazon, Facebook and Google.
And this: https://steemit.com/steemit/@ura-soul/just-so-we-re-clear-the-tech-manager-of-steemit-is-anti-democracy-and-pro-oligarchy-in-his-own-words
Whomever wants to do or know anything about his account needs to pay for it by surrendering a part of his own author rewards to unofficial services like busy.org, or let services like steembottracker.com and steemdb.com and steemnow.com and others mine with his computer, or both, like the case of dmania.lol was, or not do what he wanted to do.
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Great to read that all is back to normal!
On another note, I noticed something quite strange since some days while redeeming my rewards and I just wrote a post on same asking for help!
I am getting rewards consisting of STEEM on top of the usual SBD and SP!
Has there been any changes on the rewards system?
Would be great to know more on this change!
Thank you!
@progressivechef
What you’re noticing has actually always been a function of the rewards calculations. You’re just noticing it now due to the decline in Steem value.
SBD are actually a debt instrument. If the Steem value decreases, or the supply of SBD grows too much (or both!) the blockchain manages distribution to try and keep the debt level under a certain percentage and sustainable.
You’re seeing a portion of the SBD side of the 50/50 split paid as liquid Steem to control the debt load. Back in the days when Steem dropped into the .10 range, there was a long stretch where no SBD were paid out at all.
You're seeing the beginning of a return to what was normal when I started. The 50/50 split is 50% Steem Power and 50% liquid assets. The liquid assets were normally split between Steem and SBD, but the spike in the price of the SBD led to 100% SBD payouts to correct the market in an effort to return the SBD toward parity with the US Dollar, or at least that is how I understand the algorithms to work.
Was there also a period of slowdown prior to the outage? Seemed to be incredibly slow around 3 pm EST Sunday.
that's probably why.. good to know everything is normal.
I noticed the outage and I switched to busy.org because I can't afford spending even a split second without this amazing blockchain. I am very glad that Steemit.com Is back now. #blessings
Using Amazon Web Services is already a mistake on its own.
Hopefully can be resolved to get back to normal.
Yeah I couldn’t access steemit for a few hours.
Thanks for letting us know about the issue.
I'm glad it is back online now, was bit of a challenge some two hours ago. Good one Team Steemit.
Thank you for the update.