> If the servers were completely down, I'd pop into #hcoop @ > irc.freenode.net to ask what was up, and probably get a login message > answering the question.
I can imagine the situation where the servers are down and none of the admins are at their terminals and/or available on IRC for help. I don't see this as too particularly unlikely. I think IRC is probably the best place for everyone to check on server status, with ops in the channel utilizing the topic or a ChanServ on join message to inform users of any downtime. What might be a good idea is to have something automated that would verify that the server is responding to service requests, and when it is not responding within a certain threshold, notify administrators by their preferred emergency contact information - phone/cell, sms, etc. This might even be a service offered by the colocation provider, I've seen it at other providers before. When an administrator begins taking a look, they could just drop a line in the topic to notify users of what's in progress. Icing on top would be an IRC bot that automatically let us know an administrator has been notified by changing the topic. Jonathan _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
