MSN Search Unavailable
From a technical person’s point of view, for serve farms like MSN Search, even to put one this temporarily unavailable page is a big challenge – how many servers need to be configured to serve this page alone?
P.S. It is a technical article again, some kind of. I do enjoy to slip away from the Shanghai focus topic, when I found something really interesting for ME (maybe only me). Hope people don’t get annoyed. Anyway, it is still my PERSONAL blog. :-D
That doesn’t seem hard to do. Just configure that to be the default “unavailable” page, and then clone all the servers.
There’re thousands of servers in the farm. I think there maybe some auto-config tools already.
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FireFox! =D
My point was, even to show this message in a large data center in a graceful way requires some work, and need to be planned. It must be another server group behind the load balancer and firewall (since to configure application is too complicated, and often the application server have been shutdown alredy). Most data center don’t have enough “backup” servers, so the load to these servers must be very high during this period of time.
Any small things will be very big for datacenter as large as MSN and Google.
Well, this may slip into another topic.
Do people in China have access to WordPress blogs now?
Do you have to register your blog with the government?
Still not, at least from my China Telecom ISP at home. People still need to register blog if you have a domain name. Bloggers on BSP does not need to register, but the BSP obviously needs to register and taket he reponsibility to control and censor the content on the BSP.
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