Continuing to fix bugs and tweak servers. If you want the technical summary: those “503” errors were when the load balancer decided an app server was error-ing, but it could sometimes take out all the app servers, even if they were fine. Lots of new traffic from Mastodon users.
@vincent Ah, you can't? I've only worked with nginx and HAProxy for load balancing, which both supports custom error pages. Huh. Which software are you using? (So I know what to avoid. 😂)
@sod Yeah, those will work, but MB sits in front of Linode Node Balancers - I can't see an option... Basically they just stop serving traffic to the app servers if they go down (or when it thinks they're down anyway), so it never reaches them. Maybe they have something in the docs.
@vincent @manton Maybe you could add a backend node with the sole purpose of serving a friendly error message by setting its mode to backup?
If set to
backup, this backend will only receive traffic if allacceptnodes are down.
@jean Or eventually - even a client side game that pings the server every <n> minute(s) while you are playing, and tells you when you can stop playing…or maybe not. 🤔
@gregmoore Saved it. If the server doesn’t show this when it fails, I’ll just open it locally and look at it 🤣
@gregmoore It is adorable! I will point out one little thing: guinea pigs don't really have distinct noses like hamsters, really just nostrils. But you have nailed the chubbiness, and I did check to make sure the back paws don't have more than 3 toes.
This is part of my complaint to the Unicode Consortium, who claim the hamster emoji can stand in for guinea pigs too, in their rejection of my proposal. #stillannoyed
@jean You’re right! I need better references. (I’m my defense, I drew this as quickly as I could around midnight.) If Manton wants to use it for real, I’m happy to fix errors like that.🙂
@gregmoore wow, if that's art that you make 'fast', I'm sure other things you make must also be great!
