Decouple Lab Status script from the lab itself

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Decouple Lab Status script from the lab itself

Closed this issue 9 years ago · 6 comments

If the lab goes down, right now, the service status and webcam would go down too. Is there anything we can do about this?

Answer 1 · 2016-02-11T17:53:33.000Z

Well, can something be done? Sure a lot of things. What is it that you are looking for? Right now if the lab is down, we just put an error message on the Lab page and tell the user to email the coords list.

edit: did you mean like host the script else where? I really did not understand at all what you meant, but re-reading points me towards that?

Answer 2 · 2016-02-11T18:01:34.000Z

Yeah I'm confused to. Do you mean that you want the up/down on the lab to be hosted externally to the upl on a more 'reliable' server somewhere?

Answer 3 · 2016-02-11T18:05:43.000Z

Yea aside from spinning up an external server can't really do much

Answer 4 · 2016-02-11T18:15:25.000Z

Two options I can think of immediately:

Set up a Heroku dynamo/whatever it's called (I can help/set this up if need be) for the server status, but at that point we may as well use a library or something maybe?
Like @mjneil said, possibly just say that the lab is down if we aren't able to get an accurate lab status.

Answer 5 · 2016-02-11T18:16:08.000Z

I think your 2) is already implemented @Ricky54326

Answer 6 · 2016-02-11T18:17:18.000Z

Let's just close this for now then. It's fine as-is. Someone can re-open if it becomes an issue.