Re: Yet another infrastructure problem

Russell,

The planned maintenance (to replace the troublesome hardware) was  
announced publically by Stefan.

/D

On 10/26/08, Russell Smith <mr-russ@pws.com.au> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>>
>>> People have been complaining on IRC that nothing can be
>>> downloaded from our site, as the mirror-picking script throws
>>> an internal error.
>>>
>>> When are we going to fix our infrastructure properly?
>>>
>>
>> As Stefan has already posted on this very list, he is performing
>> maintenance on that machine in order to move it to new hardware.
>>
>> //Magnus
>>
>>
> We are still missing the one important thing "Notification"  lots and
> lots of people use the website that will never go near the lists,  
> irc or
> anything else.  Notifying the email lists of downtime will stop the
> heavily involved community from complaining, but it does absolutely
> nothing for general user trying to download something from the  
> internet.
>
> You can argue about replication, downtime and the like until you are
> blue in the face.  There will always be some downtime.  The question  
> is
> how do people know about it, when is it and what do they do about it?
>
> Until reading this thread I had never even thought about how  
> PostgreSQL
> does or doesn't notify people about downtime or potential downtime.
> Reading down thread this notification issue appears to have been
> ignored.  To me it seems like relatively low hanging fruit to allow
> messages to be posted on the website about planned outages, and
> notifications of recent unplanned outages.  Complaining on IRC is  
> one of
> the only ways to find out what's going on at the moment for a casual
> user.  When Marc's hosting had trouble a couple of years back, the  
> only
> way to find out anything was on irc.
>
> I'd look into this, but I'd need a lot more knowledge about how the  
> web
> stuff is setup, and I'm probably not going to be able to glean that  
> from
> people in a couple of weeks.  But if I can.  Great!.
>
> Russell.
>
>
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