browsers.contralis.info is gone?

[fippo]

looks like browsers.contralis.info is gone and the main domain is showing a namecheap site.

I never figured out who was running this useful service. @DamonOehlman @nathanoehlman?

[DamonOehlman]

@fippo That was @nathanoehlman - Nathan something you can fix? Or possible to host the site elsewhere?

[silviapfeiffer]

Looks like it's back :-)

[fippo]

woho, green dashboard. Thanks for fixing it!

[silviapfeiffer]

I did nothing - thanks to @nathanoehlman :-)

[nathanoehlman]

Sorry about the interruption in service - I missed the renewal for the contralis.info domain, and once I missed it, the namecheap domain servers took an excruciating amount of time to update back from the parking page.

[fippo]

ping... now it gives an "application error"?

[lgrahl]

I don't want to be disrespectful (not even close, this microservice is cool!) but can whoever operates that server open the code, so we don't have a single point of failure in the future?

[fippo]

also wondering why we don't use https://github.com/nathanoehlman/browser-sleuth directly, thanks @lgrahl :-)

[fippo]

ironically browser-sleuth is broken because https://omahaproxy.appspot.com/all/json errors... :-)

[DamonOehlman]

I don't want to be disrespectful (not even close, this microservice is cool!) but can whoever operates that server open the code, so we don't have a single point of failure in the future?

@nathanoehlman Any ideas on this? Perhaps it would be possible to tweak your code (which AFAIK runs on a VPS somewhere) to be heroku deploy friendly? I still believe they offer free hosting for light traffic sites and I imagine browsers.contralis.info is probably pretty low traffic.

[nathanoehlman]

Hi all,

Sorry about this - I have a terrible tendency to forget to renew my obscure domains, so it's definitely worth moving away from a reliance on that :)

The server itself is actually already hosted on Heroku, and running on the free tier hosting, so it should exist for as long as Heroku honours that (and has the added upshot of not relying on me remembering to pay), so it may be worth just changing the address to that - https://browser-version-api.herokuapp.com/

Alternatively, the code for the service is available at https://github.com/nathanoehlman/browser-version-api if anyone wants to spin up their own alternate instance.

[fippo]

works for me :-)

[fippo]

https://browser-version-api.herokuapp.com/linux/firefox/unstable 404s? Chrome works...

[fippo]

ah, lets use #56