Oh, and just to be clear, I think the prioritization on the 'Geeks part is absotively, posilutely, the correct approach. Putting your money where you can get the most for them is the only sensible way to run any operation.
I am assuming that there are backup systems that can be put online within an acceptable period of time. Of course, that all depends on what you define as "acceptable". For a low-essentiality site like the 'Geek, I'd say anywhere within five business days is fine. If they were a bank, I would think that there would be a high availability, double redundancy system. That just doesn't make any kind of sense for a site like the 'Geek. On Sep 29, 8:11 am, razumny <[email protected]> wrote: > My understanding is that, the economical situation of the 'Geek being > what it is, the focus has been on stable live servers that are taken > down for maintenance once in a while (and it seems to me that it has > been a long while since the last time now), instead of having a mirror > site, as that would be too costly. > > I might be wrong. > > On Sep 29, 8:09 am, Scott Alden <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Yes. > > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:59 AM, 1 Awesome Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hey BGGers, > > > > So I work in web development and am curious if anyone knows why they > > > take the entire website offline for maintenance. In my opinion, a > > > website the size of BGG should not be taken offline every time they > > > need to make changes. They should be able able to work on a mirror > > > site then copy the changes over very quickly. Of course, I do not know > > > the specifics of their set-up, but I've never seen another website of > > > this size do this. > > > > Am I just missing something? > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "BGG Down" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en.
