I tried to go to mysql.com and Planet MySQL over my lunch break at OSCON 2009 to find the websites are down. Seems from conversions with fellow Drizzle colleagues this has been down for some time.
What does your site look like when your system is unavailable or down?
This is a question I ask clients. What redundancy do you have in place for DNS, for a site unavailable page, for a static copy of content?
I learned my first personal lesson several years ago when at The Planet, my server and 9,000 others were unavailable at least 40 hours due to explosion, fire at a data center. While I had copies of my site, and shared hosting options elsewhere, all DNS was also in the same unavailable data center. This was definitely a shortcoming of the Host Provider at the time.
For any commercial site, it is important that at …
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