Ubuntu Linux recently had a huge repo outage that took out update and security packages from being updated or installed. This lasted a few days and caused chaos. Let's review what happened and how Ubuntu & Canonical can improve.

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https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/is-there-a-problem-with-archive-ubuntu-com/66686/76
https://status.canonical.com/
https://status.snapcraft.io/
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/current-status-of-ubuntu-update-errors-please-read/66809
https://status.canonical.com/#/incident/KNms6QK9ewuzz-7xUsPsNylV20jEt5kyKsd8A-3ptQEeU3GXIanNjKdIbqOloWN1eJjRJOF08lC9Oi8vO-oNvg==
https://status.canonical.com/#/incident/KNms6QK9ewuzz-7xUsPsNylV20jEt5kyKsd8A-3ptQFLgLjDzVQrMHPXBHk_iLhIU8oFopgzSmx1Uw-9F0hKyg==

0:00 - Ubuntu's Repos went down..
1:23 - Status Pages
2:45 - The Incident and how things transpired
5:48 - Why this was such a big deal
7:19 - Incident Reports
9:35 - Ubuntu didn't handle this great


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SavvyNik

Ubuntu's package repositories experienced a 35-minute outage that caused days of disruption for users worldwide. The archive.ubuntu.com and security.ubuntu.com repositories went down, preventing package installations and security updates. While the servers came back online quickly, the resulting backlog overwhelmed mirrors and caused ongoing failures for several days. The incident highlighted critical infrastructure weaknesses in Ubuntu's centralized repository system and raised questions about redundancy, failover mechanisms, and community communication during outages.

Ubuntu's Massive Mistake..

AFAIK that’s the main reason why there are dozens of mirrors for those repos. Failures like this happen and they take time to restore to normal operation. Having a bunch of crybabies spamming their FREE Support Forum, for a pretty much FREE service would solve absolutely nothing.
Was the representative harsh? Sure he was, you would be too if everyone panicked and spammed you over such a technically minor incident. If there’s something Canonical can improve about the whole process is to have a PR employee respond instead of tech people.

Many of the mirrors there so many mirrors on there repo