Hi, > Does anybody know what's wrong with maps.nycwireless.net ? I've done > some warwalking, and would like to confirm my results.
It seems that there is either something wrong with the server or with the code. Since every email I have sent to the personaltelco people offering help has gone unanswered, it's time to do something different. Bon Sy offered to help set up a new maps server. The biggest complaint was that he is running Oracle, which is expensive, so that everyone would be dependent on him and his server for maps. Replcating Oracle would cost too much money to be worthwhile for organisations which are all about free stuff. I understand this argument, but there is another option. Sixgirls Computing Labs will be hosting a commercial Oracle license as well as an instance of an educational Oracle license, so anything that Bon creates can be replicated elsewhere for redundancy. So even if Bon retired this fall and his Oracle server goes away, we still have hosting that isn't going anywhere. Also, I'd like to test the argument about replication. Since personaltelco can't get their server to handle the traffic / load, I'd like to ask for a copy of the code and a copy of the database. Since it's all for the community, and the ability to replicate is important, let's replcate! Redundancy is good, and if we figure out ways to improve the code, it'll help them, too. If you're involved with poersonaltelco and the maps server, please contact me in private so we can arrange to get the files onto Sixgirls servers. John Klos Sixgirls Computing Labs -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
