[SLUG] website and mailing list issues
G'day everyone, I'm really glad to see that SLUG is up and running again. Around about the 11th of January the SLUG mailing list and website went off line for a few days before returning. It appears to have happened again and only now recovered. Is this a hosting issue? Machine failure? Some failure somewhere between me and there? I've heard on the grapevine that the issue was related to servers dying, home ADSL links and general relocation, but I was wondering whether more information was available. In particular whether everything is better now, or whether more downtime is expected in the near future. All the best, J -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] website and mailing list issues
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 10:29 +1100, Jacinta Richardson wrote: I've heard on the grapevine that the issue was related to servers dying, home ADSL links and general relocation, That's the general gist as I understand it. but I was wondering whether more information was available. On the grapevine I've heard rumour of virtual hosting happening among other things. If anyone who is busting a gut on this right now could give a quick overview, that'd be great :) -- MP question to the Prime Minister: Prime Minister, was the government contacted by the major Australian producer of ethanol or by any representative of his company or the Industry Association before its decision to impose fuel excise on ethanol? John Howard: Speaking for myself, I did not personally have any discussions, from recollection, with any of them. --John Howard (Question Time, 17 September 2002) The Truth: John Howard had met on 1 August the head of Manildra Group [Dick Honan], which makes 87 per cent of our ethanol, and they discussed how to help the Australian ethanol industry. --Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (Official Record of Meeting, 1 August 2002) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] website and mailing list issues
Craige McWhirter wrote: On the grapevine I've heard rumour of virtual hosting happening among other things. If anyone who is busting a gut on this right now could give a quick overview, that'd be great :) Hi, I don't know how it broke, but we have had a long offer to rehost the slug box for a while now. That offer was taken up finally after maddog being down for a while, and as a result SLUG (website and mailling lists) are hosted on a Xen 3.0 VM on AMD64 on one of our boxes. The VM is called Rusty and has 256MB Ram allocated with 10Gb of hard drive space. Rusty also seems to host linuxchix and AMSsig and maybe a few others. Anyway, the new VM lives in a shiny new server in at Equinix here: http://www.equinix.com/prod_serv_asia/sydney/ (in fact if you look closely in the first picture, the rack is the second one in on the third row!) :) Solutions First is donating the VM and bandwidth to SLUG, and would love for everyone to be nice and refer some hosting work our way if you appreciate it :) Just email me if you want details. We will also be offereing Xen based VM hosting on our new AMD64 boxes in the near future, (or now if you don't mind a lead time on provisioning) so keep us in mind if you want to try out Xen (its much better than UML). Though of course we are based here in Sydney, so we can't compete (and don't want to) with US based hosting for bandwidth. Of course we kick em on service :) As for what happend to Maddog, I this Chris Deigan can fill you in. Thanks Dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
