Lightning wrote:
On Jun 6, 2004, at 7:00 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
We should be back online sometime tonight where "tonight" is defined as "before I get any sleep".
I just want to take a moment to say thanks. that kind of dedication is much appreciated. wikipedia would have never become what it is today without your help or this kind of dedication, its easy for people to say "X is broken *somebody* fix it" and it seems you are more often than not that *somebody*
Thanks for the compliment, but this long downtime and heroics are totally unnecessary. If we'd managed to keep the database slave server running and in sync we should have been back online within an hour.
Spare-time off-site volunteer labor is fine as far as it goes, but managing a server farm on a high-traffic dynamic web site is hard to do remotely.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)