I've been testing this for years now and the transition has been seamless

LLEEEEERRROOOOOOOOYYYYYYY

taste and smell aren't helpful in a driving situation

How else will I know when I forgot to release my parking brake?

Sounds about right. This keeps happening at my job, executives throwing good money after bad in an attempt to get some return on their investment. If we had just cut our losses years ago we'd be in a much better place now.

Where would you host the script? If it's expected that the server that fires it off is always online and performing health checks, why not have it host a load-balancer? Or another local instance of the website? It's something fun to play around with, but if this is for anything beyond a fun exercise there are much better ways to accomplish this.

If you don't want to mess with another VPS you can use a global server load balancer (GSLB) provider like Akamai, Cloudflare, Azure, etc.

This being a self-host community though it's unlikely you'd want to pursue something like this, but without knowing more about your specific use case it's tough to make a recommendation.

If global high-availability is your primary goal then a hosted solution is probably best.

If this is just an exercise you and your friend are working on for giggles and it's not for a mission-critical Production instance, then presumably self-hosting a load-balancer on each of your servers that includes both nodes in a target group would achieve this, though somewhat counterintuitive; if the website goes down at either location, I would imagine there's a pretty high likelihood the LB itself would be down as well.

Now is about the time of year I remember to say "Fuck Debbie Wasserman Shultz"

Many popular channels revised their content format as a direct consequence of the Wadsworth constant

This leaves cicadas susceptible to a very effective side channel attack

I used to use Firefox.

I still do, but I used to too.

Best date nights always started with a trip to Blockbuster.

I remember renting an N64 with Majora's mask and pulling an all-nighter so I could finish it during the two-day rental period. It was a good time to be alive.

Troubleshooting checklist:

1. DNS
2. Fuck if I know