Our Tourism course will be the first to run with Wikied, but we 'deliver' the course through blogs, so we will try and get the first month's content from the wiki onto the blogs in time, so if there is down time, the students won't know about it...
Very good. Good luck. Looking forward to hearing who the team ends up being. I nominate our very own Brent Simpson to in the mix of course :) On Jan 12, 2008 10:24 AM, mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good idea about a front page announcement. > > COL and the community will be doing everything we can to ensure that > there are no disruptions to the service. Under the circumstances -- we > cannot provide a 100% guarantee for uptime. > > There is a small risk (albeit a small one) that our server can go > down. If for example, the CPU chip burns out -- it will take us a few > days to get back up and running. > > I'll check with Erik if its feasible to make a regular data dump of > the database over and above our daily backup -- and figure out how > best to make this available for folk to download in the unfortunate > event of hardware failure. You could then have an alternative strategy > in place in the event that something goes wrong on this end. > > I agree -- it would be a bummer if the server burns out. Lets figure > out the best way to deal with your needs. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > > > > On Jan 11, 11:18 am, "Leigh Blackall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would be great if the front page had a small announcement about this, > and I > > can send it around our staff. Just one thing though, we start classes > here > > mid to late Feb.. hopefully this project won't be disruptive to the last > > minute preps or initial stages of class. This would be a big bummer... > > > > On Jan 12, 2008 3:03 AM, Randy Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > This may be a stupid question, but where does the remote backup occur > - is > > > it off-site from where the server is located? > > > > > - Randy > > > > > ________ > > > Randy Fisher - aka "WikiRandy for WikiEducator" > > > iCentro Networks > > > Vancouver, BC > > > +1 604.684.2275 > > >www.icentronetworks.com > > >www.hirerandy.com > > > > > Skype / Gmail / Yahoo: wikirandy > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > From: mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: WikiEducator <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 5:48:52 AM > > > Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: An alternative hosting path > > > > > Hi Erik, > > > > > Sure thing. > > > > > I will compile a list of the folk in the super user and routine > > > maintenance categories. > > > > > We'll hold thumbs that our current server doesn't burn out and > > > prioritise our phase 2 hosting solution. > > > > > Cheers > > > Wayne > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.< > http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51438/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs> > > > > -- > > -- > > Leigh Blackall > > +64(0)21736539 > > skype - leigh_blackall > > SL - Leroy Goalposthttp://learnonline.wordpress.com > > > -- -- Leigh Blackall +64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalpost http://learnonline.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
