Ohh the horror, the wiki site has been down for quite some time, it's driving me screwy as I've seen such good oxp's that I want to add to my oolite game so I can get in on all the hotness but alas it's not to be right now, please oh please bring the wiki back from the dead soon!
Let me be the first to welcome you... to the friendliest board this side of Riedquat I'm told...
I have been able to access the wiki over the last few days, it just takes several minutes to bring up a page.
At first I thought that it must be stored locally somwhere in my proxy or browser cache, but the "This page has been accessed 77,937 times" at the bottom gets updated, so the server is generating the page.
Wonder what their problem is....
What are peoples thoughts on a fail over? I'm not sure on the size of the wiki but a static mirror here and there just so new captains don't see a 404 might be something we might want to think about.
Server fall over start to smell baaad.
Just occured to me to mention this.
http://www.proxy-offline-browser.com/
I use the free version because I use a mobile internet connection and it is unreliable.
Basically you can access any page you have accessed while using this proxy, off-line. I have found it very useful and also lately now that the wiki is being difficult - I can still access the links to the OXP's.
You can share the cache between linux and windoze (or whatever, it is java), I have several gig on a usb HDD so I can browse off-line the pages I have seen on my laptop also... Anyway there ya go....
<edit>Sorry, I know that doesn't really address the quoted point, it just reminded me...<edit>
It occurs to me with a bit of image refining there is very little bit bulky about the wiki:
Most of the oxp's reside on the makers web space (that is a bit of an issue in itself, although timely updates of shipyards and redux appear to have put pay to catastrophic oxp loss). Not that I'm saying a library wouldn't be nice but it's not essential.
So it's just really images, text. Sure there's the member tables and histories but if your talking a static snap shot then would we really be talking about that much space?
Ensa wrote:
ClymAngus wrote:
What are peoples thoughts on a fail over? I'm not sure on the size of the wiki but a static mirror here and there just so new captains don't see a 404 might be something we might want to think about.
Server fall over start to smell baaad.
Just occured to me to mention this.
http://www.proxy-offline-browser.com/
I use the free version because I use a mobile internet connection and it is unreliable.
Basically you can access any page you have accessed while using this proxy, off-line. I have found it very useful and also lately now that the wiki is being difficult - I can still access the links to the OXP's.
You can share the cache between linux and windoze (or whatever, it is java), I have several gig on a usb HDD so I can browse off-line the pages I have seen on my laptop also... Anyway there ya go....
<edit>Sorry, I know that doesn't really address the quoted point, it just reminded me...<edit>
You can replicate MediaWiki on more than one server, Wikipedia does it after all. Probably the easiest thing is a read-only copy elsewhere and a fairly short DNS TTL on the "wiki.alioth.net" record so the switch takes effect fairly quickly.
In any case, it's up now. Don't know what's up with the physical hardware, looking at the logs - it just quit doing anything.
You can replicate MediaWiki on more than one server, Wikipedia does it after all. Probably the easiest thing is a read-only copy elsewhere and a fairly short DNS TTL on the "wiki.alioth.net" record so the switch takes effect fairly quickly.
In any case, it's up now. Don't know what's up with the physical hardware, looking at the logs - it just quit doing anything.
Yeah I noticed that I was trying to get a replacement password (beacuse I'm a dumb blonde) and it wouldn't send it out. Knowing my luck I've probably got 13 happily nesting in my inbox right now.
