On 25/05/11 17:32, FT2 wrote: > I don't get this. > > Would it be possible in future, if the sites are unresponsive, or will be > unresponsive due to planned maintenance, to establish a fallback that simply > displays an explanatory status message to the public?
You mean replace the entire site with an error page? But only part of the site was down. More and more things became accessible as each database server was fixed. I'm not sure how this could work. Even if we did prepare an error message saying "Wikipedia will be down for 2 minutes while a router restarts", I don't think that could be called "explanatory" if it were displayed for half an hour. Writing informative error messages and displaying them in appropriate places is necessarily a low-priority task during downtime, the higher priority task being to get the site working again. Maybe at some time in the future, we will have enough 24/7 sysadmin manpower that we can respond to any unplanned downtime in the way you suggest. But we don't have that capability just yet. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l