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possible hardocp server status page?

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Devin

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I'm wondering if it would be possible to have a page or some thread or something devoted to the hardocp server status? Even if its just mods that have access to reply to or something.

As most are aware, its been up and down on a pretty regular basis as of late. The only reason I'm requesting this is so that it would be great to know if its just my side of things or not and whats going on as it is my most frequented link.
 
Seems a bit circular dont you think? I mean if the hardocp servers are having problems, then wouldnet a status page be hosted on a hardocp server? in any case, simple test to see if its your problem or not is just go to google, if google works, your set.
 
Rombus said:
Seems a bit circular dont you think? I mean if the hardocp servers are having problems, then wouldnet a status page be hosted on a hardocp server? in any case, simple test to see if its your problem or not is just go to google, if google works, your set.
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Heh, that's a very valid issue. Google is always fast and always up; if you can see it, the problem is the website you're visiting.

Also, whenever the forums are down, I get a black error message on a blank screen. It loads quickly, so if I see that I know the forums are down.
 
moreso, it would just be nice to know whats going on. hard forums always seem to be up...at least lately.
 
lorcani said:
Heh, that's a very valid issue. Google is always fast and always up; if you can see it, the problem is the website you're visiting.

Also, whenever the forums are down, I get a black error message on a blank screen. It loads quickly, so if I see that I know the forums are down.
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Whatever happened to pining? ;)
 
Rombus said:
Seems a bit circular dont you think? I mean if the hardocp servers are having problems, then wouldnet a status page be hosted on a hardocp server?
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No, you could do basic status info from anywhere. Just script the equivalent of "ping hardocp.com" and give it nice output and host it anywhere.

For instance, to determine forum up/down, a script could load the forum front page and test to see if the error message is present (or just check the size of the front page). Response time could also be shown, possibly against a running average or benchmark. And all this is w/o any special firewall privileges or anything.
 
lomn75 said:
No, you could do basic status info from anywhere. Just script the equivalent of "ping hardocp.com" and give it nice output and host it anywhere.

For instance, to determine forum up/down, a script could load the forum front page and test to see if the error message is present (or just check the size of the front page). Response time could also be shown, possibly against a running average or benchmark. And all this is w/o any special firewall privileges or anything.
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That's all well and good, but if all it's doing is checking for the error message, why bother? If hardocp is down, you can see that by going. If Google works, your internet connection is working.

It really seems a little over-the-top to me. If a website didn't have any sort of way of displaying an "unable to reach" error message, than your idea would work very well indeed. :)
 
Hey, I'm not saying it's necessary. Just possible.

However, if set up internally, a script could maintain detailed status on all the servers involved (it's something in the 5-10 box range for the front page plus the forum, I think), which might be considered useful. Just put it on the box least likely to go down.
 
lomn75 said:
No, you could do basic status info from anywhere. Just script the equivalent of "ping hardocp.com" and give it nice output and host it anywhere.

For instance, to determine forum up/down, a script could load the forum front page and test to see if the error message is present (or just check the size of the front page). Response time could also be shown, possibly against a running average or benchmark. And all this is w/o any special firewall privileges or anything.
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So are you saying that if you went to hardforums and it was down that you would check the status page to see if it was down? If it's down it's down; not much a status page could do about that.
 
You people don't read.

(1) It's not my idea, nor am I really advocating it. I'm just pointing out it's technically feasible
(2) Even the stupid-simple version could distinguish between "OCP-Problems" and "Your-DNS-Sucks-Problems."
(3) The in-house version proposed is quite similar to what most hosting providers have. There's the matter of internal server status in addition to simple up/down status. I just don't know offhand how much of that data is accessible from external locations.

"Status" is not a boolean value. I just tossed that out as it's the trivial example of how this might work, in response to the initial allegation that it wouldn't.
 
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