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On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Dan Farrell<dan@×××××××××.cx> wrote: |
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> Last week the gentoo forums went down. Then gentoo-wiki.com went down. |
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> Now it seems as though all of gentoo.org is down. |
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> What's the deal? What are we to do about this shoddy hosting? |
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The deal: |
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Gentoo forums went down recently because MySQL crashed and could not |
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be restarted normally, apparently. They were down a week earlier when |
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the servers were moved from Oregon State University to a hosting |
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company in Canada (gossamer-threads.com). I'm not sure if they |
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physically moved the servers or if they moved the data to all-new |
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servers. If the latter, maybe that partially explains the MySQL |
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issues; perhaps they are still working out the new setup. |
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I believe gentoo.org uses Neustar UltraDNS, whose business exists for |
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the purpose of providing high-availability DNS and hosting for huge |
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companies (I think they provide services to Amazon and Oracle), it |
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seems like Gentoo.org should be in good hands there. |
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Gentoo-wiki.com is a user-run site and whether it is up or down has |
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nothing to do with the gentoo.org sites. (Mike Valstar, whose site it |
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is, also runs gentoo-portage.com). There is a mirror of the old |
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gentoo-wiki.com articles at gentoo-wiki.info which might get you by in |
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a pinch if the g-w.com is down or if you're looking for an old article |
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was lost. |
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What are we to do? |
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If you or anyone else have any ideas to improve the, or donations of |
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money, mirrors, better equipment or hosting, I'm sure gentoo web team |
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(or Mike V. for the wiki) would be happy to listen. :) |
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