Amigaworld down

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A hardware issue? In this time and age? May I suggest moving to a vhost provider? Digital Ocean, Vultr, Upcloud, Linode... there are so many these days, and the cost is just a couple of beers per month.

[kolla]

ISP charge prices in beer now?

Must make things tricky, places like Utah and Saudi Arabia...

I measure all prices against beers, it's how I rationalise most of my expenses :lol:

[kolla]

I seriously hope duplicating the sites to more locations with proper redundancy is being considered. 2-3 locations for database backend and as many web frontends you like, using anycast address or "floating IP address" shared among them. Bonus feature - become available on IPv6 already. Also, someone with DNS skill to take care of hosting the domains, especially amigaworld.net suffers from crazy TTL values!

[kolla]

And even more mysterious: what killed the domain zone of amigaworld.net? None of the (tested) subdomains irc,de,se,se2,no,fr.amigaworld.net do exist anymore. No A record, no CNAME record. Don't tell us you were using the amigaworld.net server also as its own DNS and only switched to your hosters NS (ns.123-reg.co.uk) after the accident O.o

I have been moaning about this for years - they have been operating with a 300 seconds TTL on the entire damn domain - and the SOA is the darn box that also is the web server - it is down for 5 minutes and amigaworld.net disappears from DNS.

(http://tinyurl.com/htyh2ve - post 385 - and lots of helpful comments by besserwissers ensued.)