Scheduled Downtime

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

I hope that we really test the whole cloudserver farms ability. Every year we push the server we have to its limits.

Since FIRST also went to a cloud server ( I think I read that) the FIRST website should be interesting too!

I believe FIRST is using Akamai, a global content delivery network to publish their static content (and possibly accelerate some other content). We aren't using a CDN .. just a server that we can change RAM/CPU on the fly (via reboot), to be prepared during the season and scale down during the off-season. Given this ability, we were able to keep costs relatively the same, but hopefully handle the high load during the season.

[Brandon Martus]

This is happening now!

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

This is happening now!

Finished -- let me know if anything weird is happening.

[Hallry]

Access is back, Thanks Brandon!

It's back! Thanks Brandon!

[Thad House]

Bill must have been looking at this. The manual was posted when the site was down.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by sst.thad

Bill must have been looking at this. The manual was posted when the site was down.

Actually, it was posted before hand. There's already a thread about the encrypted manual here, and one about the most recent Bill's Blog post ('Flash Update') here.

[cgmv123]

I kept refreshing, thinking that the manual talk had crashed the site. Luckily, I started when only a few minutes were left. Can you at least put up a graphic that says "Down for maintenance" or something similar, so I don't get nervous?

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by cgmv123

I kept refreshing, thinking that the manual talk had crashed the site. Luckily, I started when only a few minutes were left. Can you at least put up a graphic that says "Down for maintenance" or something similar, so I don't get nervous?

I could .. I'll keep that in mind when I reduce the resources for May.

[Mike AA]

Up to over 510 users on cd. And its business as usual it seems.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

Up to over 510 users on cd. And its business as usual it seems.

It's not even breaking a sweat.

**knocks on wood**