sparkeh Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 One of my schools reported that their website was unavailable this morning (I presume down to parents checking the snow situation). Came back up when school started. Anyone else with an embc website have this?
jamesreedersmith Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 Yes - Lincolnshires servers were all grinding along rediculously slowly 1
sparkeh Posted January 6, 2010 Author Posted January 6, 2010 Great. We tell all parents to check the website rather than ring and its not available so the poor secretaries still have to field all the calls.
rush_tech Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 Ours was down this morning, Its back up now:) 1
Edu-IT Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 It was running slowly last night also, I did notice. 1
russdev Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 Yes and helpdesk said we added extra stuff yesterday in to try and copy with the demand this morning Russ 1
russdev Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 It did get me thinking I should setup a template html file so can rename ad set as main index page to give a single html page with the info on it. Russ
sparkeh Posted January 6, 2010 Author Posted January 6, 2010 The most annoying thing is that this is the first time we tried to use the website to inform parents of the snow situation and it failed, now we had calls about the snow and complaints about the website!
PEO Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 I thought ahead and moved the schools website over to CS New media. Since the change over I've never had a problem 1
russdev Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 I am going to be asking LA why at most critical time the webservice was unable to cope.. Russ
sparkeh Posted January 6, 2010 Author Posted January 6, 2010 I am going to be asking LA why at most critical time the webservice was unable to cope.. Russ Already done, waiting for reply. More voices would be good though.
bigjb Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 Ours went down as well. Ended up creating a single .html file which displayed the school was closed message. Have asked LEA for reason as the Head wants an explanation. 1
GrumbleDook Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 Not had any reported issues round here, but most parents / schools use the council pages on the main council site now ...
sparkeh Posted January 6, 2010 Author Posted January 6, 2010 Not had any reported issues round here, but most parents / schools use the council pages on the main council site now ... Well around here you are advised to check BBC Leicester or Leicester Sound website, but guess what happens to those websites on a snowy day...
GrumbleDook Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 Yeah ... that happened to the council site when we had the bad weather in Feb, but they have improved it all now and don't have a problem. A pretty good, load balanced sharepoint front end, with feeds that get pulled of by the local radio stations so that they have quick access to the info for news reports. Northamptonshire CC even have general news and info going out via twitter now, often with some 'good news' stories or raising awareness of projects.
russdev Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 I don't know BBC Leicester site holds up but Leicester sound never does. Russ
Edu-IT Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 It did get me thinking I should setup a template html file so can rename ad set as main index page to give a single html page with the info on it. Russ That's a pretty good idea, would cut out on all the MySQL queries and such that are carried out by lets say a Joomla website.
russdev Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 My tech had brain wave on joomla site we can just set it to close with a message minimum sql queries and means do not need to ftp into embc etc. Russ 1
Edu-IT Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 My tech had brain wave on joomla site we can just set it to close with a message minimum sql queries and means do not need to ftp into embc etc. Russ Ah, nice one. Must update the maintenance page now then and get rid of the Joomla logo.
sparkeh Posted January 6, 2010 Author Posted January 6, 2010 My tech had brain wave on joomla site we can just set it to close with a message minimum sql queries and means do not need to ftp into embc etc. Russ Yeah thats a good idea To a certain extent it would depend on other schools doing the same to reduce the load as well?
SimpleSi Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 Brilliant idea - where can we get rid of joomla logo? regards Simon
russdev Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 The answer is Modify This site is down for maintenance page Russ 1
SimpleSi Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 I dont seem to have any offline.php in my root dir regards Simon
SimpleSi Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 Found it - go into templates - system and offline.php is in there regards Simon
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