# Juliapackages.com and juliaobserver.com broken?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliapackages-com-and-juliaobserver-com-broken/64578>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [July 13, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliapackages-com-and-juliaobserver-com-broken/64578 "2021-07-13T14:52:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![murrayE](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/murraye/32/24428_2.png) [@murrayE](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/murrayE)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliapackages-com-and-juliaobserver-com-broken/64578/1 "2021-07-13T14:52:07Z")

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Both those sites seem to be down. Trying to visit [juliapackages.com](http://juliapackages.com) gives an Application Error. Trying to visit [juliaobserver.com](http://juliaobserver.com) gives a “Whoops…Something went wrong.”

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**Author:** ![brenhinkeller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brenhinkeller/32/36648_2.png) [@brenhinkeller](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brenhinkeller)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliapackages-com-and-juliaobserver-com-broken/64578/2 "2021-07-15T03:30:52Z")

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Can reproduce for [juliapackages.com](http://juliapackages.com). Is that supposed to be replaced by [juliahub.com](http://juliahub.com) or something?

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliapackages-com-and-juliaobserver-com-broken/64578/3 "2021-07-15T03:36:09Z")

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No; both are run by @djsegal, with JuliaPackages apparently slated to replace JuliaObserver: [Shutting down Julia Observer… [posted 4/1/20]](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/shutting-down-julia-observer-posted-4-1-20/36870).

JuliaHub is unrelated and run by Julia Computing.

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**Author:** ![brenhinkeller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brenhinkeller/32/36648_2.png) [@brenhinkeller](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brenhinkeller)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliapackages-com-and-juliaobserver-com-broken/64578/4 "2021-07-15T03:45:09Z")

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Oh nice. Yeah, looks to be down then though.

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**Author:** ![mindaslab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mindaslab/32/12673_2.png) [@mindaslab](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mindaslab)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliapackages-com-and-juliaobserver-com-broken/64578/5 "2021-07-17T18:20:23Z")

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[juliapackages.com](http://juliapackages.com) is showing error page for me. Wonder what’s wrong?

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliapackages-com-and-juliaobserver-com-broken/64578/6 "2021-07-18T01:23:09Z")

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Given that it’s hosted on heroku I’d guess it timed out connecting to GitHub (or some other data source) when starting up at some point. Heroku will aggressively shut down servers and spin them up on-demand, but if you fail to spin up just one time it’ll give that error page forever (until you manually rebuild it again).

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**Author:** ![djsegal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/djsegal/32/13752_2.png) [@djsegal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/djsegal)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliapackages-com-and-juliaobserver-com-broken/64578/7 "2021-08-04T01:19:41Z")

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Whoops. Have been taking some time away from computers

Both sites are up again. Sorry for the service outage

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// also the sunset was an april fools joke 😛

the problem with [juliapackages.com](http://juliapackages.com) is that it doesn’t have a daily worker

this daily worker is also probably why [juliaobserver.com](http://juliaobserver.com) keeps going down