https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20079





--- Comment #2 from Martin Peeks <[email protected]>  2009-08-05 
23:26:54 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Where would you place that status page so it doesn't get "slashdotted" on a
> wikipedia outage?
>
> A long time ago, there was an external page serving for that, which was taken
> down on wikipedia 
> failures. Now wikipedia traffic is orders of magnitude greater.
> 
> An appropiate place to set the messages could be the toolserver (if WM-DE is 
> ok
> with it), 
> independent but nearby. However, it only makes sense if the source of the
> problem isn't in esams 
> itself!
> I can't think a scenary where the squids present the error message, the
> toolserver is not 
> accesible and which isn't trivially solved by rerouting to tampa. Nonetheless 
> I
> feel there might 
> be an unsuspected problem there.

toolserver did cross my mind.  Alternatively, use a completely seperate service
such as a hosted blog or, as an increasing number of services do, use twitter.  

Alternatively, could the "Site down" notice be modified such that it draws a
short status string from somewhere and presents it to users?


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