We experienced some downtime this morning, approximately 7:00-9:30 AM PDT. Some of the dibs.net servers unexpectedly rebooted (something that you have to plan for in an environment like Amazon EC2). The outage would have been quite a bit shorter except for another problem that surfaced during startup, causing some services to not come back online automatically.

Unfortunately, until Amazon offers the ability to float an IP address, this sort of outage can hit any web application hosted on EC2. For the time being, however, fixing the startup scripts to decrease any outages should be sufficient for these early days of dibs.net.