If you’re subscribed to opensuse-announce (and if not, why not? ) and/or read news.opensuse.org, you’ve no doubt seen the announcement of some downtime for download.opensuse.org.

We’ve done a lot to improve openSUSE infrastructure uptime in the last year, and we’re continuing to move forward there. On this particular issue, we’re adding the redundancy we need to ensure that we have a backup in place for download.opensuse.org in the event the primary machine is down for some reason.

In addition, we’ll also be looking for other areas where we have a single point of failure or weak spot in the infrastructure and addressing those as well.

We’ll probably never eliminate downtime 100% — Murphy’s Law being what it is — but the goal is to get as close to that as possible, and for any downtime to be very minimal. Thanks for the patience while we get this issue fixed, and a big thanks to everyone who was involved in getting this fixed — Peter Poeml, Christian Schneemann, Nat Friedman and his team, and everyone else.

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