Build Your SaaS

Worst day ever


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On Sunday, we had a service outage. Jon and Justin talk about what happened:

  • TLS / SSL day of horror
  • Sunday morning Justin started getting messages from a few Android users that they couldn’t download episodes.
  • Then, the afternoon hits, and we started getting a flood of tweets, DMs, text messages, and support requests.
  • We talk about how we fixed it, and what we'd like to change for next time.
  • Also: how we're earning 29% of our SaaS revenue. (A channel we didn't expect)

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Show notes:

  • Our status site: status.transistor.fm
  • DHH on service outages
  • DHH's postmortem on Basecamp's outage
  • The affiliate program we use is Rewardful.
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