The story so far...

This site is just a sandbox - or test bed - for Drupal 6. It is here for the edification of developers from Upstarts and their Associates .

We use this webspace to test how specific modules, themes and configurations survive in the "real world".

There is often not much to see here  - unless you are logged in - and sometimes it can be downright ugly. Sorry about that.

This site is also likely to break from time to time. We gather very useful intelligence about how modules work together - or don't - and, because we  are testing workflows and revisioning procedures, these outages are sometimes deliberate to test recovery procedures.

Sometimes we simply remove the public access because we are refactoring or rebuilding after a specific trial. For example we recently closed the public site while we removed a series of modules that we had been testing. This entailed rebuilding similar functionality with a new set of modules.

This took time but as the site is a sandbox we weren't worried. And neither should you. We would never do this to a client site. Only on this site do we explore disaster scenarios.