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To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Justin Clift <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: mailing list offer
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:51:04 -0400 (AST)
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Thank you for your offer, but we have taken steps towards setting up a hot
failover mirror of that VM to a server in Austria, which we will be
working on more next week once the server is ready ...
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am sure that everyone is doing their best to get the mailing lists back up.
> However, I would like to re-extend my offer to host the mailing lists.
> In the time that the lists have been down the last two days I could have
> built a brand new machine, restored from backup, had the lists back up
> and running with 16 hours to spare.
>
> I am not trying to step on any toes here but the main source of community
> communication is down right now and has been for 24 hours. This is really
> not good.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> Hmmm ... from my perspective, what we need is not so much to move the
>>> mailing lists, is to have a fallback to another mailing list server in the
>>> event that Hub.org becomes unavailable for some reason, such as the trunk
>>> line in Costa Rica going down (as happened last fall). The mailing lists
>>> are the backbone of our community; we really can't afford for them to go
>>> offline for more than a few hours.
>>
>>
>> Well although that is obviously a possibility (Backhoe comes to mind) our
>> connectivity comes from three different providers:
>>
>> 1. ELI
>> 2. Sprint
>> 3. TimeWarner
>>
>> Also our connectivity is physically accessible my half a dozen people
>> within 30 minutes, even at 3:00 AM. If something goes down, the whole
>> freaking world is notified to make sure it is getting worked on. Did I
>> mention the natural gas fired generator? ;)
>>
>> I just want to help make the parts of the project that we can, as reliable
>> as possible.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Joshua D. Drake
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>
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