file system read-only - possible failover actions

[PinkElephant]

Hi

I'm new to CMSMS and I'm working my way around 1.5.2 - thanks for a great piece of work!

Due to hardware failure my hosting provider has marked the entire file system read-only for the rest of the day (including the phptemp directory). At the moment the site returns:

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The following directories must be writable by the web server:
tmp/cache
tmp/templates_c

Please correct by executing:
chmod 777 tmp/cache
chmod 777 tmp/templates_c
or the equivilent for your platform before continuing.

Would a custom site down message (global settings) have worked in this condition? Is there any way that the site could render without file write access? (The other PHP/MySQL sites I have on the host are unaffected by read-only access).

There's nothing I can do about it now but I'm wondering what future failover options might be.

[milehigh]

Who is your hosting provider, same thing on my end. I'm with jodohost on web13 and I'm curious if its the same issue.

[PinkElephant]

I'm with jodohost on web13 and I'm curious if its the same issue.

Sorry for the delayed reply. It's not the same provider - I'm using www.gradwell.com.

Ideally, I was hoping to suspend caching - or perhaps use database writes - when the file system isn't available.