Website is down

[turion]

The website for criterion is linked in many places as http://www.serpentine.com/criterion, but it is offline.

[Lysxia]

Right now it looks online to me, but it's an http link, which may be a problem depending on browser extensions; and the https certificate is out of date.

[turion]

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/serpentine.com.html says that the site is certainly down. Maybe you still have it cached?

[turion]

Also, the https variant doesn't work for me either.

[RyanGlScott]

I am also able to view the website, and I don't have it cached.

That being said, I think it is time to consider migrating the website away from www.serpentine.com to a different place. (Perhaps somewhere on github.io using GitHub pages?) I don't own www.serpentine.com, which means that there's nothing I could do if the website truly goes down. Nor can I update the website should we change the material presented on that page, as was recently done in #268.

[turion]

When I SSH into my webserver, I can curl the site (but only http). From my personal laptop, I cannot curl it. It says:

❯ curl http://www.serpentine.com/criterion/tutorial.html
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: www.serpentine.com

So there is probably something wrong with DNS, but not only on my laptop, since isitdownrightnow.com says it's down as well. I checked two other similar services: https://www.checkifdown.com/ sometimes says it is up (although a 500 error), sometimes it is down, https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/serpentine.com?proto=http&www=1 says it is up.

Maybe a cloudflare issue?

[turion]

github.io or readthedocs sound like sensible places.

[RyanGlScott]

If my understanding of how GitHub Pages works is correct, we'd need to:

1. Enable the appropriate options in https://github.com/haskell/criterion/settings/pages. (I'd need a @haskell administrator to help me with this step, as I don't have the permissions to do this.)
2. Add a GitHub Actions workflow that uses the deploy-pages action to build the website (i.e., navigate to the www subdirectory and run make) and deploy it.