The only way you could have done that this time is by re-directing your DNS to someplace completely non-google.
On Oct 26, 2012, at 6:18 PM, Benjamin Possolo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all. Like most everyone else here. My application was affected by the GAE > downtime this morning. > > I would like to know if there is a good mechanism for detecting this sort of > failure in the future so that my application can automatically throw up a > Maintenance Page. > > Normally I would have an admin section where I can toggle a switch to render > the Maintenance Page but since writing to the datastore was not working, this > isn't really an option. Especially if I can't login to get to the admin page. > Uploading a new version of my application when a disruption like this occurs > also seems impossible. > > Another idea I thought of was to change my DNS CNAME record to point to a > different server which hosts a maintenance page but the time for the DNS > changes to take effect means this is pretty impractical as well. > > Does anyone have any good ideas? > > I was wondering if anyone using the Capabilities API would be able to chime > in on what their app was seeing during the disruption. > If the Capabilities API correctly identified the GAE state as something other > than "Enabled", then I could see this being a good solution for automatically > redirecting all requests. > > Then again....it seems the problem was that requests were not even reaching > the application servers (due to failed load balancers)....so I guess that > wouldn't have been a solution to the problem this morning either.... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/qvOaGAiQXcMJ. > 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/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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/google-appengine?hl=en.
