[PLUG] Recent Outage

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.dyndns.org
Fri Oct 15 23:05:02 UTC 2004


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David Mandel <dmandel at pdxLinux.org> writes:

> I want to thank everyone Ed and Wil for their help with this Outage.
>
> I will fill people in on more later, but for now:
>
>     (1)  MicroSharp has hosted PLUG for free for over 4 years and has
>          given PLUG very good service.  We want to thank them very much.
>
>     (2)  MicroSharp is changing.  Among other things they are giving up
>          their servers and outsourcing everything they have.

Ack!  Don't they realize outsourcing all the services provided is what
boned California[1] into the electric crisis a few years ago?  That
being said, Microsharp was a reliable host for PLUG, I just consider
the transition an astounding lack of judgement on their part.

>     (3)  I have been trying to purchase the PLUG server.
>          Unfortunately, the PLUG server has been sold to another company
>          along with all of MicroSharp's other servers.  I'm now trying to 
>          buy it from the new owner, but may not succeed.  The hardware
>          is OLD OLD OLD and isn't worth, but I would like our data.
>
>     (4)  MicroSharp also sold the machine which should have PLUG's 
>          backups on it.

Without giving PLUG a chance to recover what they have?  That's plain
rude.  Why no warning?

>     (8)  To complicate matters, I have just had a death in the family
>          (an 92 year old uncle) and need to tend to family matters
>          today.






[1] Not that California or Californians matters more than the dogshit
scraped off my shoe after an inconsiderate dog owner failed to scoop,
but I bring up the electric matter as lessons not learned by
Microsharp.
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