Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this mean you're shifting the servers across the street at 3AM? That's got to look suspicious :-)
If you're setting up a downtime page on the Paris squids, I recommend not including a link to Openfacts.berlios.de. Every time Wikipedia has even a mild downtime (i.e. about 3 minutes or less) that site gets overwhelmed and goes down itself. I don't think it's fair on whoever owns that site.
I also recommend making any downtime error page generated multilingual, by consulting the people in the other language IRC channels. If I wasn't studying for exams I'd do that myself.
~Mark Ryan
On 6/4/05, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
On 7 June, 2005 at 3:00AM Eastern Standard Time (9:00AM Paris/Berlin time) we will be moving the bulk of the servers to a new facility across the street.
I assume we will try to set up a sensible "downtime" page on the paris squids or something. But the site will absolutely be down for awhile.
The colocation facility is providing staff to do the move, and we are also supplying myself, Chad, Terry, and possibly Michael Davis and possibly a friend of Chad's -- all to make this go as quickly as possible.
--Jimbo
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