[maemo-developers] maemo.org is down

[From: Neil MacLeod]

Ferenc Szekely wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 5/11/07, Neil MacLeod <gmane at nmacleod.com> wrote:
>> The Maemo site has been down for several hours.
>>
>> This affects bugzilla and more importantly several of the essential Maemo repositories are now offline.
>>
>> Are there moves afoot to make maemo.org more resiliant? I appreciate that there are ongoing updates at the moment, but if the Internet Tablets are going to become more popular it's essential that the internet infrastructure supporting them is available 24x7.
>>
> I appreciate your concerns, and can ensure you that we were/are more
> than unhappy because of last night events. There was a service break
> somewhere in the network of our provider's provider. We have no
> control over such events.
> We could not communicate to the list either for obvious reasons. The
> servers were totally cut off from the world. Anyway we will get a
> detailed report later today and if you are interested I can share the
> reasons with you.
> 
> Br,
> ferenc

maemo.org is down again - it went down just before midnight 21 May UK, ironically while I was trying to respond to bug 1463 ("Bugzilla is very slow").

I don't know if it's a server or network issue this time - just before maemo.org went off the air I was served a couple of "Internal Server Error" pages (HTTP 500) while attempting to view bugs in bugzilla. A few minutes later the servers disappeared completely.

I'd be interested (out of curiosity) to see the post mortem for the last outage, and also this second outage. It's an irritation when these outages happen but if/when Internet Tablets hit the big time it will become more unacceptable and it may be wise to consider a more resilient infrastructure (is nokia.com dependent on a single ISP? I'd hope not!)