Hi everyone,
> looks like entropia is offline again? getting timeouts ("cannot establish
> connection with server").
Thanks for the concern. Pacific Bell kindly called us early this morning to say
they had been/were/are intermittently dropping our T1 lines. Usually it's the
shared server load with the paying customers' commerce systems that does it.
The test software is designed to keep working between service outages, so this
impact should be low.
We are moving ahead with steps to make PrimeNet's availability more reliable.
PrimeNet 4.0 is underway, and this quarter we are getting a dedicated server.
To date, PrimeNet is covered as an operating overhead expense to which I am the
sole contributor.
> (This is what Scott Kurowski started from. Scott began with it on
> March 28 '97 and by April 6 he had a primenet server on the internet.)
Ah, nostalgia. Here's more:
Ken and Kris tested several subsequent 2.x rewrites of the server. PrimeNet 2.6
for v14 was first in public Internet prototype July 1997, when 'netconx' started
accumulating their century of CPU time. On 18 October 1997 PrimeNet 2.8 for v14
was officially launched. Finally, 3 January 1998 v15 and PrimeNet 3.0 were
announced by George.
It's been 18 months of great growth and wonderful participation. Thank you,
everyone.
Regards,
scott
