(off) dropbox down

[Mike Kerner via use-livecode]

For everyone who does anything with dropbox, it's been down since at least
2AM EDT.

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RE: (off) dropbox down

[Skip via use-livecode]

I am not seeing the same problem… looks like it is functioning to me.

SKIP

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From: Mike Kerner via use-livecode
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 9:01 AM
To: How to use LiveCode
Cc: Mike Kerner
Subject: (off) dropbox down

For everyone who does anything with dropbox, it's been down since at least
2AM EDT.

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On the second day, God created the oceans.
On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
   and did a little diving.
And God said, "This is good."
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Re: (off) dropbox down

[Mike Kerner via use-livecode]

See their twitter account.

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Skip via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> I am not seeing the same problem… looks like it is functioning to me.
>
> SKIP
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> From: Mike Kerner via use-livecode
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 9:01 AM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Cc: Mike Kerner
> Subject: (off) dropbox down
>
> For everyone who does anything with dropbox, it's been down since at least
> 2AM EDT.
>
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> On the second day, God created the oceans.
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Re: (off) dropbox down

[Richard Gaskin via use-livecode]

Mike Kerner wrote:

> For everyone who does anything with dropbox, it's been down since at
> least 2AM EDT.

For this morning:

Network outages for popular services can often be tracked using 
third-party tools.  Searching Google for "is dropbox down" led me to 
this report confirming that many others have reported similar issues 
with Dropbox today:


http://downdetector.com/status/dropbox


For this afternoon:

Nextcloud - can't say enough good things about it.  Free and open 
source, available here:


https://nextcloud.com/

[Pardon the long pitch, but it's a free package and a really good one:]

Ever since I started using it I've stopped using Dropbox, Google Drive, 
and other services I'd used in the past.  Why?  Better sync, more 
flexible options, and completely under my own control all the way down 
to how much storage space I want.


Nextcloud is a PHP package that installs under Apache.  As such it's not 
yet an end-user consumer product (a partnership with Western Digital is 
in the process of producing one), but is very well suited for anyone 
comfortable with setting up Apache.


Dual-licensed like LiveCode, the GPL edition is probably more than 
adequate for the needs of most readers here (though the Enterprise 
edition has some components that may be worth considering if you're 
running a larger business).


You install Nextcloud on any VPS or dedicated server, and once installed 
you're limited only by your server's disk capacity.


You can set up any number of user accounts, establish disk quotas for 
them if needed, and share files between them or even publicly. You can 
sync any number of folders, and synced folders maintain versions when 
files change so you can revert to any earlier version at any time.


Nextcloud has native clients for Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.

I originally tried it as a solution for syncing my LiveCode Plugins 
folder across all the machines I work on, and as the only option with 
native clients for all three OS families that alone made it an instant 
favorite.


Since then I've discovered that it includes a considerable number of 
apps, included an embedded version of LibreOffice, contact, photo 
management, etc., with more available from their third-party collection.


I had the pleasure of meeting the project founder and director, Frank 
Karlitschek, at the SoCal Linux Expo a couple weeks ago, along with the 
project's community manager and head of marketing, Jos Poortvliet.  Both 
fun-loving, hard-working people, committed to the vision of putting 
people back in control of their cloud systems.


Until they get a turnkey consumer device shipping, Nextcloud may not be 
for everyone just yet.


But for developers in an increasingly interconnected world that already 
has us configuring Apache, Nextcloud can be a very good solution for 
cloud storage and more.


If nothing else, consider:

When a public cloud service like Dropbox goes down, your only recourse 
is to wait and pray.


If your Nextcloud server goes down (and mine never has in the many years 
I've been running it), chances are you'll just reboot and be back in 
business in minutes.


--
 Richard Gaskin
 Fourth World Systems
 Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
 
 ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com

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Re: (off) dropbox down

[Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode]

Maybe this all had to do with this in some way?

https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/reverse-dns-issue-for-some-delegations-in-the-ripe-ncc-service-region
 





> Am 17.03.2017 um 15:24 schrieb Richard Gaskin via use-livecode 
> mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>:
> 
> Mike Kerner wrote:
> 
> > For everyone who does anything with dropbox, it's been down since at
> > least 2AM EDT.
> 
> For this morning:
> 
> Network outages for popular services can often be tracked using third-party 
> tools.  Searching Google for "is dropbox down" led me to this report 
> confirming that many others have reported similar issues with Dropbox today:
> 
> http://downdetector.com/status/dropbox 
> 
> 
> 
> For this afternoon:
> 
> Nextcloud - can't say enough good things about it.  Free and open source, 
> available here:
> 
> https://nextcloud.com/ 
> 
> [Pardon the long pitch, but it's a free package and a really good one:]
> 
> Ever since I started using it I've stopped using Dropbox, Google Drive, and 
> other services I'd used in the past.  Why?  Better sync, more flexible 
> options, and completely under my own control all the way down to how much 
> storage space I want.
> 
> Nextcloud is a PHP package that installs under Apache.  As such it's not yet 
> an end-user consumer product (a partnership with Western Digital is in the 
> process of producing one), but is very well suited for anyone comfortable 
> with setting up Apache.
> 
> Dual-licensed like LiveCode, the GPL edition is probably more than adequate 
> for the needs of most readers here (though the Enterprise edition has some 
> components that may be worth considering if you're running a larger business).
> 
> You install Nextcloud on any VPS or dedicated server, and once installed 
> you're limited only by your server's disk capacity.
> 
> You can set up any number of user accounts, establish disk quotas for them if 
> needed, and share files between them or even publicly. You can sync any 
> number of folders, and synced folders maintain versions when files change so 
> you can revert to any earlier version at any time.
> 
> Nextcloud has native clients for Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.
> 
> I originally tried it as a solution for syncing my LiveCode Plugins folder 
> across all the machines I work on, and as the only option with native clients 
> for all three OS families that alone made it an instant favorite.
> 
> Since then I've discovered that it includes a considerable number of apps, 
> included an embedded version of LibreOffice, contact, photo management, etc., 
> with more available from their third-party collection.
> 
> I had the pleasure of meeting the project founder and director, Frank 
> Karlitschek, at the SoCal Linux Expo a couple weeks ago, along with the 
> project's community manager and head of marketing, Jos Poortvliet.  Both 
> fun-loving, hard-working people, committed to the vision of putting people 
> back in control of their cloud systems.
> 
> Until they get a turnkey consumer device shipping, Nextcloud may not be for 
> everyone just yet.
> 
> But for developers in an increasingly interconnected world that already has 
> us configuring Apache, Nextcloud can be a very good solution for cloud 
> storage and more.
> 
> If nothing else, consider:
> 
> When a public cloud service like Dropbox goes down, your only recourse is to 
> wait and pray.
> 
> If your Nextcloud server goes down (and mine never has in the many years I've 
> been running it), chances are you'll just reboot and be back in business in 
> minutes.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
> 
> ambassa...@fourthworld.com 
> http://www.FourthWorld.com 
> 
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Re: (off) dropbox down

[Roger Eller via use-livecode]

Or maybe THIS had some complications they were working through.  I received
an email from Dropbox that said:

"This is a reminder that your Public folder links will become inactive
on *March
15*. On that date, your Public folder will become a standard Dropbox
folder, and your files will remain safe in your account. If you want to
share those files again, you’ll need to use shared links instead."

~Roger


On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Maybe this all had to do with this in some way?
>
> https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/reverse-
> dns-issue-for-some-delegations-in-the-ripe-ncc-service-region <
> https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/reverse-
> dns-issue-for-some-delegations-in-the-ripe-ncc-service-region>
>
>
>
>
> > Am 17.03.2017 um 15:24 schrieb Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >:
> >
> > Mike Kerner wrote:
> >
> > > For everyone who does anything with dropbox, it's been down since at
> > > least 2AM EDT.
>
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Re: (off) dropbox down

[Mike Kerner via use-livecode]

We got blasted sometime between midnight and 1 EDT.  The rest of the US got
hosed between 6 and 7 AM.  They weren't up until 10:15 EDT.  Anyway, that's
the first time we've seen an outage that was long enough for us to notice
since we started using DB with LC.

Roger, I'm going to start a different thread on the new public folder.

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Roger Eller via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Or maybe THIS had some complications they were working through.  I received
> an email from Dropbox that said:
>
> "This is a reminder that your Public folder links will become inactive
> on *March
> 15*. On that date, your Public folder will become a standard Dropbox
> folder, and your files will remain safe in your account. If you want to
> share those files again, you’ll need to use shared links instead."
>
> ~Roger
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode <
> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > Maybe this all had to do with this in some way?
> >
> > https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/reverse-
> > dns-issue-for-some-delegations-in-the-ripe-ncc-service-region <
> > https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/reverse-
> > dns-issue-for-some-delegations-in-the-ripe-ncc-service-region>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Am 17.03.2017 um 15:24 schrieb Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >:
> > >
> > > Mike Kerner wrote:
> > >
> > > > For everyone who does anything with dropbox, it's been down since at
> > > > least 2AM EDT.
> >
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