www.python.org is down

[Ian Parker]

In article <cpae1hxeiz.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com>, Guido van
Rossum <guido at python.org> writes
>PoulsenL at capecon.com writes:
>
>> How hard is it to just have a one page redirect to a mirror...  This has
>> gone on for several days and it is not a good PR move.  Just redirect the
>> home page until it is resolved.
>
>The mirror might not like the full load redirected to it.
>
>Anyway, the new site is up now, thanks to Thomas Wouters and his
>employer, the Dutch ISP XS4ALL.  Enjoy!  There are some missing items,
>we're getting these from other mirrors as soon as we can.
>
>--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)


That's excellent news.  But I hope, and this is easy to say with
hindsight, someone will consider improving the resiliency: mirroring
drives and controllers, even clustering.

Regards

-- 
Ian Parker