[R-wiki] Site down?

[Philippe Grosjean]

Hello,

Indeed, the R Wiki server is down. I am away from my office (meetings), 
but I just phone to the computer department in charge of the servers at 
the University. They are currently looking at the problem.

To answer to legitimate Martin's questions:
 >      - What happens if you are in vacation, sick,...

As I said, it is the computer staff of the University that is in charge 
of the servers. But, they have to be warned of the problem before they 
can do something about it. Perhaps should we install a system that pols 
the Wiki server regularly and issues a warning automatically when 
something happens? I cannot do this without discussion and acceptation 
of the computer staff and authorities... which is a long and 
administrative process!

 >      -  Who is your "substitute"?

Johan Debergues, Philippe Lievens, or the people in charge of the 
servers at the University at the time the problem occurs (emails of 
people is simply Name.FamilyName at umh.ac.be).

 >      - Is there a phone number for urgencies?

+32.65.37.34.97, which is the phone in my office, currently.

 >      - What are the emergency measures (and who is responsible) if
 >        the machine crashes?  Backup / Substitute machine / ... ?

Regular (daily) backups of the Wiki content are made on another machine. 
I am in charge of that backup, and of restoring the machine in case it 
crashes. We currently have no other emergency measures. In particular, 
we have no substitute machine installed currently.

We certainly could secure the R Wiki much better. I am open to any 
suggestion on this point.

Best,

Philippe Grosjean

P.S.: Please, do warn me in case of problems: I am not working 24h/day 
and 7d/week on the R Wiki. So, do not assume that I am aware of the 
problem at the time you notice it! In particular, yesterday and today, I 
am in meetings, which makes me less prone to notice the problem rapidly!


Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "Gregor" == Gregor Gorjanc <gregor.gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si>
>>>>>>     on Tue, 7 Nov 2006 08:14:22 +0000 (UTC) writes:
> 
>     Gregor> Jeffrey Horner <jeff.horner <at> vanderbilt.edu> writes:
>     >> 
>     >> 
>     >> Just curious. I tried getting to wiki.r-project.org earlier in the day, 
>     >> and them someone on R-help mentioned that they also tried but couldn't 
>     >> reach it.
>     >> 
>     >> Jeff
> 
>     Gregor> Yep, I also can not reach it since sunday.
> 
> Yikes!!
> 
> So I guess, the reason is the now infamous  pan-European (slight
> exaggeration) blackout that hit about millions of people in
> Europe, and notably Belgium where the R-Wiki server is located.
> 
> Gregor, did you do something about it, e.g.,
> sending an urgent e-mail to Philippe Grosjean
> (with a 'CC' to this list).
> 
> BTW: Philippe, I think you should try to think about the
>      following questions
> 
>      - What happens if you are in vacation, sick,...
>      -  Who is your "substitute"?
>      - Is there a phone number for urgencies?
>      - What are the emergency measures (and who is responsible) if
>        the machine crashes?  Backup / Substitute machine / ... ?
> 
> The R-Wiki is too important to leave such questions
> unanswered.
> 
> 
>