On 29 January 2014 17:37, Thijs Schreijer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gaspard Bucher [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: woensdag 29 januari 2014 17:58
>> To: Hisham
>> Cc: LuaRocks developers list
>> Subject: Re: [Luarocks-developers] luarocks down...
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Hisham <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 28 January 2014 18:12, Gaspard Bucher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > Luarocks has been down for 30 minutes now...
>> Sorry about that. It was a long downtime in which the services got really
>> flaky - after many attempts I could ssh to the machine, run some commands
>> and then it would time out again. I kept trying to figure out what was
>> happening, but we ended up having to reboot it. I don't even know if that
>> was what did it (I was sick yesterday night and didn't check it later) but I
>> woke up today (fortunately feeling
>> better) and the site was back up. So I don't know if it was something in the
>> machine, some attack or just unavailability from the VPS provider network
>> (all I could detect was that the load average in the box was really high).
>>
>> Things should be back to normal now, but I'll keep an eye on it during the
>> day.
>>
>> -- Hisham
>>
>> Hi Hisham,
>>
>> Thanks for your dedication with luarocks and heal well.
>>                                                                Gaspard
>
> I got stuck due to the outage as well. Mostly because I knew there was a 
> mirror, but the information on where to find the mirror is located on the 
> main server...
>
> Wouldn't it be wise to include both servers in the rockserver list in a 
> default installation. Or wouldn't that make it automatically fall back to the 
> mirror server?

Isn't it so already? I see five URLs listed in the source code for luarocks.cfg.

-- Hisham

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