It seems mysql.com went down again, this is the second time to me in no more than 3 months.
I don’t know what’s happening behind that but definitely I’m thinking about alternatives now, just in case some day Oracle shutdown MySQL (or at least the open source version) totally.
MariaDB would be the right one to go, but I need to do some more tests.
It’s my fault not checking the status after upgrading the system, but obviously mysql upgrade on Ubuntu hit some problems and stopped in the middle leave the mysql totally inaccessible, which means, my site was down for two days.
Well, I was really busy on job related stuffs, dealing contextual algorithms while playing with network, but this is not the real cause – I do need a monitoring tool to make sure my site is up and running, though it is not that critical.