Could we do better?  Of course.  One can always 'do better.'

Risk versus reward, people.  Keeping enough hardware and keeping said
hardware updated and operational is an additional (and not
insignificant) effort.  Said effort could be placed into making sure
the site is better/faster/whatever, or it could be spent trying to
achieve high-availability fail-over situations, or we can just live
with small outages from time to time.  Which do you suppose we
favor..?

We have two full-time developers.  Any further questions...?


derk.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Bruce Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's no fundamental reason why a no-write copy of the database
> couldn't be kept alongside ready to spring into action as an all-
> content (a couple of hours old) but no live community when the site
> was down. Keeping the two systems synced is pretty much a solved
> problem for database systems. Depending on whether making comments or
> reading content was more important to you, this could represent a
> significant functionality win over the 'BGG is down' page.
>
> One can only hope that provisions for this are being made in the
> current big changeover.

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