About the only thing I'll ask is if you ever meet
me in person at an
event, buy me a glass of beer and I'll be happy.
I'm some 10.000 km from you, I doubt I'll have the pleasure of buying you a
beer in person. Maybe a button we could remotely click? :)
2017-11-07 20:12 GMT-02:00 Jay West via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>:
Yes, I am aware of the list problems. Yes, it went
down a couple weeks ago
and again about a week ago. The issue is that I've been migrating the
classiccmp server VM from an old falling apart cluster to a new one. Rather
than just migrate it, I decided to take the time to upgrade everything. All
software, all dependancies, OS, etc etc.
My approach was to create a new classiccmp server on the new cluster, and
then migrate one website/ftp site/repository/mailinglist at a time. This
way I could make sure things are running ok before just moving everything.
What that means is that as of this moment, some classiccmp related websites
are on the 'old' but running server, and some are on the 'new' but
running
server. That is why - for just one example - that when the old (but still
in production) server went down a couple weeks ago (see below)... bitsavers
still stayed up and running. It had already been migrated.
So on the old falling apart cluster where the old server is, there is a
horrendous iscsi issue. This is partly a problem with freebsd and some
silly assumptions made by the developers, or at least lack of time to fix
it. It's also due to some bad network related items. But mostly it is due
to the fact that all of our production clients we moved off the old stuff a
year ago and that hardware isn't well maintained and targeted for
decommission. That can't happen until my hobby classiccmp list/site, and
all the vintage computer related sites that I host for free.... get moved.
Yes, there are active backups of everything. But whenever the iscsi issue
presents itself, I have to restore the entire VM, and that takes a long
long time.
So no Aaron - better hosting isn't needed. Nor is any donation. I just
need to find a bunch of roundtuits so I can finish the migration. Then it
will be stable again. This is a hobby, and life does intervene at times.
About the only thing I'll ask is if you ever meet me in person at an event,
buy me a glass of beer and I'll be happy.
J