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Notes on today's outage

Hi everybody, today’s outage has been resolved.

An ethernet adapter on the main Lightstalkers Web server failed, and it took a little time to mobilize onsite engineers for a fix; fortunately, no data was lost. We are, however, auditing the system carefully to make sure it’s all ship-shape now.

Come of you have generously provided financial support to November Eleven—we use your contributions to pay for stuff like RAM, CPUs, bandwidth, disk space, and backup solutions.

Unfortunately, hardware redundancy is even more expensive, and we don’t have the budget for that just yet. When something major breaks on the Web server, we’re pretty much stuck until someone can run out there and replace it.

We try to avoid excessive introspection on Lightstalkers, here in the discussion area, but certainly understand if anyone has questions. Thanks for your patience!

by Shinji Kuwayama at Mon Sep 17 19:24:12 UTC 2007 (ed. Mar 12 2008) Chicago, United States | Bookmark this | Digg this |

Thanks for the update..actually it was a good opportunity to get some work done without the temptation of LS!

by erica mcdonald | 17 Sep 2007 19:09 | New York, United States |
I thought it was Anderson’s fault, trying to connect via satellite dish from his new digs in lush D.R. country side ;)))))))))))....

happy for the respite ;)))

thanks Shinji-san :)

cheers,
bob

by Bob Black | 17 Sep 2007 21:09 (ed. Sep 17 2007) | Toronto (for now), Canada |
It might be perfect time to rile up the troops for some annual donations :))))...

Im willing to spear head the drive :))...If November Eleven approves, I’ll put up a post:

This place rocks and I hope everyone makes, no matter how small, a donation:

Here: http://www.novembereleven.org/support/

by Bob Black | 17 Sep 2007 21:09 | Toronto (for now), Canada |
Just made a small donation just now. Think it might have been a year since my last one.
Thanks for reminding us Bob.
And thanks again Shinji for getting this forum up and running again for the rest of us to enjoy using it.
Wendy

by Wendy Marijnissen | 17 Sep 2007 21:09 | Antwerp, Belgium |
Also just made a donation. Lightstalker’s has been a invaluable tool for me, so thank you for keeping it alive and running…

by Bill Thomas | 17 Sep 2007 22:09 | NYC, United States |
a few drops in the bucket from me too. thanks for the great work…

by ben gancsos | 18 Sep 2007 02:09 | Philadelphia, PA, United States |
Shinji, thank you for getting us together on a brilliant forum…long live the LS !

by Anamitra Chakladar | 20 Sep 2007 14:09 | New Delhi, India |

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Participants

Shinji Kuwayama, Shinji Kuwayama
Chicago , United States
erica mcdonald, photographer erica mcdonald
photographer
New York , United States
Bob Black, Suspect Photog/Writer Bob Black
Suspect Photog/Writer
(Dreamer- Archer-Husband-Dad)
Toronto , Canada
Wendy Marijnissen, Photographer Wendy Marijnissen
Photographer
Antwerp , Belgium
Bill Thomas, Photographer Bill Thomas
Photographer
Mehtar Lam , Afghanistan ( JFK )
ben gancsos, Photographer ben gancsos
Photographer
Stamford, CT , United States ( JFK )
Anamitra Chakladar, Photojournalist Anamitra Chakladar
Photojournalist
(News Cameraman/Photographer)
New Delhi , India


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