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

Nice. Delegating something like 24/7/365 uptime to Amazon S3 is smart.
(And good for dental hygiene :)).


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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