On 16/04/2012, at 5:42 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
On Apr 16, 2012, at 12:10 AM, Dylan Jay wrote:
Hi,
Some DNS load balancing services have api's. For example
edgedirector.com, but there others (and perhaps cheaper).
Why not go to the next level and get the script on this page to
update a DNS load balancer with all green mirrors?
Then switching mirrors would be automatic.
This wouldn't be a good idea since getting redirected to two
different mirrors during one install attempt would likely confuse
most existing scripts if versions were slightly out of sync.
I don't think it would direct you to two different mirrors during one
install attempt. Wouldn't a single python session cache DNS resolution?
As for uptime scanning, I can add sensors for this to the PSF's
existing Pingdom account and you could use their API in the same way
as http://ispypiup.com/. That would give some basic site-indpendence
since Pingdom has check servers all over the world (we currently
require 6 sites to be in agreement before a downtime alert is
issued). If this interests you, let me know :-)
--Noah
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