[gnhlug-announce] SLUG "problem solution" meeting Monday 7/14
7pm at UNH in Morse 301
Brian
lists at karas.net
Thu Jul 10 06:56:51 EDT 2003
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 21:21, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> I'm mostly wondering how other sites handle this with minimal hardware
> and proprietary software investments.
I think many sites consider downtime to just be part of life for server
moves, upgrades, etc. Even "name brand" sites like ebay and Amazon have
maintenance windows regularly where the site is pretty much offline an
unavailable.
For email, just set a lower priority MX record for your domain to point
to another box (a good idea anyway). Your mail will queue up on the
other server while your primary is down for maintenance. For web stuff,
a simple page on a temp box with a "Maintenance Window..." type message,
or some simple static content should suffice.
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