google-webfonts-helper herokuapp is down

majodev / google-webfonts-helper

A Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts. Get eot, ttf, svg, woff and woff2 files + CSS snippets

https://gwfh.mranftl.com

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google-webfonts-helper herokuapp is down #151

Closed howdytom closed 1 year ago

howdytom commented 1 year ago

Hi there,

What happened to the Self-Host Google Fonts site? google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com is down. There is a Application error showing up. The Self-Host Google Fonts was a really convenient way to grab all webfonts file at once. I really appreciate the hard work you have spent into it!

dakur commented 1 year ago

That's recurring issue and will be forever as the service is hosted by an individual for free and has no guarantee for stability. You can:

wait until it's up again
make your own fork
switch to fontsource if you have automated build

howdytom commented 1 year ago

@dakur Thank you

howdytom commented 1 year ago

@majodev Thank you for the quick fix. google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com is back online.

majodev commented 1 year ago

JFYI, it fixed itself over night (GMT) - it was actually a problem with the upstream Google fonts API suddenly missing certain font variants (leading to internal server errors).

Anyways, as @dakur said, this service currently runs on Heroku's free tier (which will be shut down at the end of November) and is currently quite sensitive to the high load it received over the last weeks.

Thus, expect more downtime in the upcoming weeks, I'm going to migrate the whole thing to my private cluster. As this is free, don't expect 99.x% uptime - there is no SLA.

sephentos commented 1 year ago

Thus, expect more downtime in the upcoming weeks, I'm going to migrate the whole thing to my private cluster. As this is free, don't expect 99.x% uptime - there is no SLA.

Thanks so much! Highly appreciated.