Boom..
How We’ve Handled a Suddenly Down Website
We have our business website (actually this website), running on a DigitalOcean cloud droplet.
Suddenly, we noticed that the website was down. In some suspicious way it happened after some infrastructure work by the cloud provider.
Some Check and Investigation
After validating that the domain wasn’t expired, and that the droplet was up, we went into some basic investigation on the cloud.
A Short check revealed that the problem was that the service of the website – apache2, could not run on port 80, since it was held by nginx.
A quick investigation showed that nginx was running on startup, apparently by default.
Disabling it, and ensuring that apach2e starts on boot- has solved the problem.
Validating it by rebooting again – and seeing that the website stayed up- closed the issue.
Why did it happen only now ?
We assume that the infrastructure work caused a reboot of the droplet, and then the problem surfaced.
Conclusion
When you are setting up an environment – always check what happens on reboot.
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