[racket] pkg.racket-lang.org down?

The current plan for reliability is to switch the package catalog to
be served from a static S3 site that redirects dynamic work to the
current server.

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Greg Hendershott
<greghendershott at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using Travis CI for some projects that need to `raco pkg install`
> some required packages. On a few occasions I've had Travis CI mark
> something "build failed", and the reason was the package install
> failed (otherwise the build would have succeed).
>
> There are two links in the chain: The pkg.racket-lang.org PNR, and
> GitHub. To be fair, lately it seems like GitHub is the one more likely
> to be down. Having said that, I could at least reduce a link by doing
> a raco pkg install directly from the GitHub URL. However, part of what
> I'd like to test (at least for newer projects) is that the package was
> added OK to the PNR, and will work when users install it manually.
>
> I'm guess I'm thinking out loud here and don't have a question or even
> a complaint. Just a comment. Well OK, I suppose I have a wish, which
> is that the uptime could be higher by the time the new package system
> is officially out of beta. I don't know if it would help to have some
> sort of automatic failover to another live PNR server, or to a reverse
> proxy cache like Varnish, or how exactly to set it up. But if there's
> any way I could help please don't hesitate to me know.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That error will never be just you. Also, we had a watch dog that sends
>> me texts if it goes down. I was just brushing my teeth and it took a
>> sec to bring it back.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I get a 502 Bad Gateway error when trying to go to pkg.racket-lang.org.
>>> Is it just me?
>>>
>>> Laurent
>>>
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