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>“what if the primary datacenter just disappeared tomorrow?” We ask this question of ourselves seriously, and make serious plans for what we’d do if this were to pass, and we are executing those plans now – though we had hoped that we would never have to.

Respectfully, if you guys asked this question...how come you don't have a cluster slave as a replica in another data center where the whole thing is synced?

A switch on a wall with an arduino in it where you flip it and DNS is updated to point there & a message is displayed to the users.



> A switch on a wall with an arduino in it where you flip it and DNS is updated to point there & a message is displayed to the users.

If you want a Klugey non-production IoT solution that bodges up something really important THESE days, all the cool kids are using ESP32s.

And as much as I think that would be a totally inappropriate solution for src.ht, I kinda wanna go make a "black-hole" switch for my office.




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