Sounds great Mike, thanks for working so hard on our behalf. dee On 13 Nov 2009, at 12:51, M. G. Devour wrote:
> Just to reassure everyone, yes, there was another outage last night. > Things were working for about 4 hours (~8 to midnight EST), then down > 'til about 3 or 4 am, before a tech got out to the colocation facility > to physically reset some servers. Everything is working now. > > I'm sure things will be a little unsettled for a time, but I expect > them to become routine soon and we'll be okay, near term. > > Long term, however, the company will have taken a severe hit from this > episode, losing a number of its business customers who bailed out and > made other arrangements when things went dark and it seemed like Eskimo > had just died. There's no way to guarantee they won't have to shut down > at some point in the future due to financial stress. > > So, I will continue to pursue ways to assure we'll be able to stay in > operation in that event. At least, I will be sure to: > > *** Keep a current backup of the member list at all times. > > *** Move the list addresses to the silverlist.org domain. > > *** Have plans in place to activate an alternate provider. > > At best, I'll finally build us a community site with forums and e-mail, > and blogs, and wikis -- oh my! ... and a complete mirror site idling in > the background ready to go any time the primary host fails. > > I'm off to tinker with rsync and cron... > > Peace, > > Mike D. > [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] > [[email protected] ] > [Speaking only for myself... ] > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > > The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
