ppa.launchpad.net and launchpad.net are actively down, part of a multi-day pattern of Canonical infrastructure outages starting May 1.
Key Takeaways
Current incident: ppa.launchpad.net and launchpad.net down since ~03:14 JST May 3, ongoing for over 75 minutes at time of fetch.
7-day uptime numbers are alarming: launchpad.net at 83%, ppa.launchpad.net at 81.35%, canonical.com at 84.19%, ubuntu.com at 80.93%.
May 1 saw a 20-hour incident hitting nearly every Canonical service simultaneously: archive.ubuntu.com, security.ubuntu.com, keyserver, PPA, Livepatch, and more.
May 2 had three separate multi-hour waves affecting 10+ components each, including gopkg.in, login.ubuntu.com, and Landscape.
Repeated churning through Acknowledged/Observing/Resolved states suggests instability rather than clean recovery between incidents.
Hacker News Comment Review
The current thread is thin, but commenters point back to a 194-point discussion and a separate 80-point thread linking the outages to a pro-Iran crew converting DDoS into an extortion attempt against Ubuntu.com.
The extortion angle, if accurate, reframes the status page data: sustained sub-85% uptime across canonical.com, ubuntu.com, and launchpad.net reflects adversarial load, not routine ops failures.
Notable Comments
@gnabgib: links prior HN thread and a separate report titled “Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down”
