On 19 January 2012 09:12, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19/01/12 01:10, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> >> The sites have gone down accidentally on numerous occasions and any >> user trying to access them just got an error message. The world didn't >> seem to end on any of those occasions... > > > There is a difference between accidentally breaking the site and pulling the > plug on purpose. > We had outages of several hours, but unless the blackout, the sysadmins were > working on fixing it since they learned about it. > Plus, I think you would need to go to the early days of Wikipedia to find an > outage where it was unavailable for so long.
No, there isn't a difference. A blackout where everyone sees a page with a particular message instead of the article they wanted is exactly the same as unscheduled downtime where everyone sees a page with a particular message instead of the article they wanted. If search engines and caches can survive one of them, they can survive both, since they are identical from an external perspective. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
