At 8:56 PM +0200 7/4/00, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
>The Squeak Swiki
>http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1
>can not be accessed since two days or so.
>
>It is also not the first time that the site is down
>for more than a few hours.

Not surprising during a holiday.  I'm sure Mark and company will have 
it up soon enough.

>I do not like to complain about a voluntary service
>provided by the people who are operating that site,
>but it does not serve Squeak if the main documentation
>(besides the source and changes files) is offline.
>
>Is there anything which can be done to improve this
>situation?

Yes, I've given this some thought.  We should be able to quickly 
build an easily extensible network monitoring and dashboard package, 
complete with e-mail reporting and beeper capabilities, akin to, say, 
NetSaint (an EXCELLENT package by the way).

In this way, whomever is responsible for maintaining the system will 
know immediately, rather than waiting for the first complaints to 
dribble in from the peanut gallery.

Next step: can we build a redundant slave server that can mirror the 
Swiki and take over the IP address if a heartbeat from the primary 
server fails -- now THAT would be something.  Indeed, perhaps we can 
arrange for it to do reasonable load-balancing in the interim?
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