Skinner: DU will be going offline shortly (for about an hour)

[cyberswede]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10137246

Better go find something else to do for a bit!

[Bucky]

1. Nnnooooooo.....!!!!!

[pintobean]

2. Disscussionist.

The cons are pissing themselves in anticipation.

[peace13]

3. Run down to the food pantry and see if they need a hand! : )

On my way!

[CBGLuthier]

4. Guess that's my cue to bid adieu.

Enjoy your echo chamber folks.

[cyberswede]

6. Aw...at least stay and check it out.

Nobody will be able to post nasty posts about Bernie any more, at least.

[pintobean]

7. You should do it right

and get yourself banned.

[FSogol]

12. Do we have a template for: Good Cruel World.......

[LanternWaste]

11. Your oppression is noted and given all the credibility it warrant.

Your oppression is noted and given all the credibility it warrant.

[snooper2]

5. I guess they didn't get the message that maintenance windows happen after hours

preferably between 2300-0500 local time....

That is why those sitting in comfy chair developers get paid the big bucks. A couple weekend maintenance windows a year never killed anybody

[rjsquirrel]

9. Yes this perplexes me a little

as someone familiar with backend sysadmin and development

Then I decided DU admins must want to signal a cease fire by stopping the noise when many are paying attention, could be smart.

But for an ad-driven site it is risky. Hopefully they have alerted the search crawlers in robots.txt or google webmaster panel and Adsense etc.

There is of course always the risk that even though you tested everything 9 times on a development server, one squicky line in your Apache config file or SQL databases makes the whole thing go pear shaped and you're offline all afternoon trying to figure out why CentOS is letting you down, chainsmoking in the server closet, pulling out your beard and worrying about your backup strategy.

Shit happens in live production. Almost always.

[lpbk2713]

8. Whatever shall I do?

Smelling salts ... quickly.

[In_The_Wind]

10. Nap time

[herding cats]

13. Do all the old post in GD Primary get archived after the restart?

I never asked before, mostly since I was more curious about the new jury system.

Does anyone know?