Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:51:04 -0400 (AST)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>,
	PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: mailing list offer
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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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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664