On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, George Herbert wrote:
I reported it on their internal/external tech list, I was seeing the outage for about 5-8 min and then it is back working in the last 5-ish.
Several times over the last few years I've seen WP outages which turned out to be bad config pushed in to production and then quickly reverted. A few were patches to the Mediawiki software, for example. I guess they don't have a preprod/UAT environment :) While I can understand them being able to simulate the scale, a small UAT environment to test config rationality wouldn't go astray. I hear Wikipedia has a monitoring system. It involves alerts issued by millions of people around the world :) Cheers, Rob -- Email: robert@timetraveller.org Linux counter ID #16440 IRC: Solver (OFTC & Freenode) Web: http://www.practicalsysadmin.com Director, Software in the Public Interest (http://spi-inc.org/) Information is a gas