So we had an outage on a couple of things. The reason was that those things live on a server of mine hosted at a place, and there was a fiber cut to that place. However it could, for the same effect, equally well have been a failure of the server hardware or the firewall that protects it. Most of the things living on that server are quite non essential:
- The forum. I'm sad when it's down because I enjoy it, but in the end no one gets hurt and files are still synchronized all over the world.
- The website. We make a less than optimal impression with it down, but again it's a minor inconvenience.
- One of the three discovery servers. The discovery service is redundant for this reason, so no worry.
- The build server. Hampers development, prevents doing an actual release in the proper way while it's unreachable. We get by.
- The usage reporting server. We get a blip in the usage reports while it's down but that's all.