An OpenID provider must never be down. MyOpenId.com, why are you down?
An OpenID provider must always be up and accessible. For the sake of its users, for the sake of their company, for the sake of the internet.
It is unacceptable to provide a service that hundreds of thousands of users depend on for access to vital applications and services on the web.
Having a service that does not perform at near 100% efficiency in the OpenID market is likely to not be around for very long.
Why the rant?
Well, I've been a loyal myopenid.com customer for several months now. Unfortunately, their services have been down for the past half hour, during primetime for my development practices. That means I'm locked out of services that have no OpenID failure recovery option. Call it the application's problem, sure, but it's also the OpenID provider's problem.
This is my call to help. I need access. MyOpenId.com, please come back up.
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Yea, I'm in the same boat. That 0.00001% downtime gets multiplied by the number of sites you're locked out of.
Fail.
I suggest using openid delegation, you can setup it fairly easy with a wordpress blog with openid plugin.
That's how one could avoid that problem, if a provider fails I redirect the delegation to another provider. I write my delegation by hand but wp open id is really easy to use.
It works really well and saves a lot of headaches.
@Carlos,
Totally. That's what I was beginning to have setup at nick.nicksergeant.com. I switched a few services over to it, but unfortunately the service I need the most was still set to the original OpenID service :(
So now I'm out of luck, until their service comes back up. Also, the problem is not myopenid.com's servers, it's a DNS routing issue. Either way, they should have a robust CDN if they really want to compete.
Nick
@nick, what did you see that shows it's a DNS problem. I'm looking into what happened.
larry-
Larry,
Glad someone's listening from over there, I really appreciate it! My initial assumption that it was DNS related was due to my ability to successfully resolve and retrieve the site from various servers we have throughout the US. It appears to only be affecting either the Rochester, NY area, or upstate NY (not sure of how widespread it is).
Here's a quick traceroute from Rochester, NY:
Nick
give myvidoop a shot. awesome OpenID provider and it has a great password manager plugin for firefox too. uses authentication method stronger than just password.
@nick Thanks for the traceroute. It looks the carrier (integra) is dropping at seattle on way to portland. Are you still haveing problems? Shoot me your contact info to ltd@janrain.com
larry
Larry,
Nope - everything seems to be fine now. I appreciate your help!
Thanks,
Nick
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