>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@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 > > > > > >