[obviouslygreen]

Why does "we're taking it down while we figure out what's going on" not qualify as a valid approach? Shouldn't safety be a higher priority than "well someone might want to look at the home page so we'll put more effort into a crappy default landing page?"

It's easy (and often correct), in hindsight, to say that some things should be prepared for in better or different ways. However, that's a different animal than "crap, something is up, we need to react in the best way we can now."

[stefantalpalaru]

> Why does "we're taking it down while we figure out what's going on" not qualify as a valid approach?

Because availability is more important than your forensic shenanigans. (2 hours to verify a bunch of checksums? really?)