Apple developer website outage lingers for more than a day
An outage of Apple's Dev Center website has persisted for the last day, prompting developers to wonder when the online resource will return.
Numerous developers began to reach out to AppleInsider on Thursday, when the Apple Dev Center sites for iOS and OS X first went offline. As the outage carried into Friday, the number of developers concerned about the downtime only grew.
A number of developers said they can't remember an outage that's lasted as long as the one currently in effect. During the period, the site has displayed a message telling developers that it will "be back soon."
"This site is undergoing maintenance for an extended period today," the iOS and OS X sites read. "Thanks for your patience."
During the downtime, a number of developers also took to Twitter to discuss the unusual length of unavailability. Some developers voiced complaints that they have been unable to access the resources Apple makes available through the site.
"Pretty astonished that we're now beyond 24 hours of Apple iOS Dev Center maintenance downtime," Jonathan Ozeran wrote on Twitter Friday afternoon. "Haven't seen that before. #HugeInconvenience"
Numerous developers began to reach out to AppleInsider on Thursday, when the Apple Dev Center sites for iOS and OS X first went offline. As the outage carried into Friday, the number of developers concerned about the downtime only grew.
A number of developers said they can't remember an outage that's lasted as long as the one currently in effect. During the period, the site has displayed a message telling developers that it will "be back soon."
"This site is undergoing maintenance for an extended period today," the iOS and OS X sites read. "Thanks for your patience."
During the downtime, a number of developers also took to Twitter to discuss the unusual length of unavailability. Some developers voiced complaints that they have been unable to access the resources Apple makes available through the site.
"Pretty astonished that we're now beyond 24 hours of Apple iOS Dev Center maintenance downtime," Jonathan Ozeran wrote on Twitter Friday afternoon. "Haven't seen that before. #HugeInconvenience"
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FYI, the reason why the site being down is a big deal to developers is because you need it to do some important tasks like creating new apps to deploy to testers, adding more test devices, updating expired development certificates, and updating app store information.
I've been lucky that I haven't needed to add any new QA or client devices for my apps, but if I had a client waiting for a build to run, this would be a big problem.
Did they seriously use a drop shadow on that text?
It's back online now...
Still down for me...
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Originally Posted by pmz
It has actually really set me back, I needed to download Xcode yesterday and couldn't, and still can't.
Funny, I downloaded it from the App Store last night to one of my reserve Macs.
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Originally Posted by Westcoast8
Funny, I downloaded it from the App Store last night to one of my reserve Macs.
PMZ is probably looking for Xcode 5 Developer Preview 3 version.
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Originally Posted by pmz
It has actually really set me back, I needed to download Xcode yesterday and couldn't, and still can't.
Uh, you heard of torrents? It can easily be found.
Also, you'd think they would have updated some of their online assets by now to get rid of stuff like the linen. It's not like it takes that long.
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Originally Posted by ipen
It's back online now...
Still down for me...
Maybe just maybe developers should realize what takes place when a web site goes through a major overhaul. It is one thing for Joe Blow not to understand the technology but developers really have no excuse and should be able to give Apple a reasonable allotment of time here.
The only problem I faced with this was last night when I needed to information about an iOS 7 API. Then I remembered that I already downloaded support docs using Xcode. So it wasn't a problem.
Can you renew provisioning profiles and certificates with xcode or does it give an error since the site is down?
EDIT: Tried to create new profile in xcode and got "Request Time Out".. Seems the entire service is down.
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Originally Posted by wizard69
Maybe just maybe developers should realize what takes place when a web site goes through a major overhaul. It is one thing for Joe Blow not to understand the technology but developers really have no excuse and should be able to give Apple a reasonable allotment of time here.
Are you kidding me? As a developer I know exactly how important up time is. And why you need to have redundancy for availability. You don't just bring a site down and not have a backup plan if deployment fails midway. This is why Apple has a lot to learn to master cloud computing.
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Originally Posted by os2baba
Are you kidding me? As a developer I know exactly how important up time is. And why you need to have redundancy for availability. You don't just bring a site down and not have a backup plan if deployment fails midway. This is why Apple has a lot to learn to master cloud computing.
And as a developer I am sure you understand that $h!t happens!
It could be that a new DP release (due Monday) contains APIs that support unannounced hardware or software... Or, it could be related to Apple's recent purchases of mapping companies.