Running a web and email server is a tough business because it has to run all the time (every day, every night ...) The server running the Journey to Forever website, wwia.org, and the Biofuel mailing list froze at about 8PM Saturday night (EST, my time). I found out at about midnight, and worked (unsuccessfully) until 2:30 to reboot the machine via an interface I have been trying to setup. I got someone on the phone at about 1PM today (Sunday) to reboot the machine. As you can tell, it is working now. Sorry for the down-time.
The server this runs on wouldn't be considered a server by people who know what a server is, which brings me to the subject of donations. I have received about $290 in donations which covers the cost of new hard drives and a RAID controller for the server. (Not installed yet) I have purchased (with help from Keith) a Soekris Engineering router device, as well as new RAM for the machine. The RAM has increased the stability a great amount. Future improvements would include a new mainboard, processor(s), and power supply. I don't foresee these happening any time soon though. I would like to express my thanks to the people who donated money. I would also like to let you know that I would have no problem paying for all of the hardware myself if I was able to do so. My status is that I am a Jr in school for an electrical engineering degree. So what else is going on to make this thing work better? Mel Riser has pledged to provide services via his business (webcrayon.com, check it out) to mirror the website and hopefully the mailing list as well. It is safe to say that his server is much more worthy of being called a "server". Malcolm Maclure has pledged to get another mirror through his son in-law (correct?) Michael, who runs catch22hosting.com (virtual servers) Thanks again to everyone who donated, I believe it is a great cause even though it isn't as tangible as a charity (that's a philosophical discussion in itself). -- Martin Klingensmith _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
