I've received more information via the Southern Region Director, Adele
Ward. See below...
Clay
Dear Fellow Lacers,
I received this email concerning the fact that the IOLI website is not
accessible. Please inform others. I will let you know when the problem
is solved.
Sincerely,
Adele Ward, Southern Regional Director, IOLI
Board members, this is to inform you that the IOLI website is down.
Ron Soman, who ran the webhosting that IOLI used, passed away suddenly
Saturday apparently from a blood clot in his lungs that went to his
heart and stopped it. He was only 37 years old.
Mark is trying to find out who stopped the webhosting service that Ron
provided, and how we can retrieve our information.
Debra has been learning more about web services than she ever thought
she wanted to know. Choosing a service isn’t as easy as it sounds and
it isn’t as cheap as advertised.
Several things that we have already learned from this experience. The
next webhosting will be with a big major company. There will be
multiple userids that will have access to the administration function
of our website. There will be multiple people who know what the
passwords are for key userids.
I have started working on disaster recovery plans, but I started with
the financial part of the organization having no clue that we would
have a problem with the website.
Please direct any comments or suggestions (or thanks) to Debra Jenny
as the First Vice President and Mark Myers as the Webmaster. They have
both already spent lots of time and energy working on this problem.
And, they will be spending more time and energy figuring out a
solution and how to implement it.
I will let you know what Debra and Mark figure out.
Thank you for your patience and understanding, and for letting other
IOLI members know what the problem is.
Shirley Stone
I.O.L.I. President
Lenore English wrote:
This information comes from Lily, who posted to several Tatting Lists on Yahoo:
Ron Soman, who hosted the IOLI site has died and someone unplugged the
servers. He hosted other lace related sites, Mark Myers tat-man.net,
Dianna Stevens and Georgia Seitz, both tatting sites.
No one is sure when the sites will be up again.
I tried the Internet Archive Wayback machine, and got nothing worthwhile.
Lenore in Michigan USA
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