[Qgis-psc] Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Web sites outage

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Gerry (cc psc for info)

If the offer is still available, I would like to take you up on your
it, since I have been in contact with theplanet.com numerous times
over the last few days and things look somewhat hopeless to me - the
expected 24hour to fix has long since come and gone and we need to put
in place some alternative for the interim.

I have a backup of the site here - its a week or two old since I was
largely offline the last few weeks before brasil and wasnt able to
update my rsync based backup. I believe the qgis.org website is up to
date but the wiki may be missing some more recent additions.

The biggest problem I have is that where I am staying I dont have
decent internet connection - both in speed and bandwidth cap and the
backup without postgis stuff (but including wiki and qgis.org) is
currently around 133mb. So Im going to suggest we start with qgis.org
only which I will send via yousendit.com to you, and then Il will
upload the wiki content as a separate effort.

Gary can you arrange to point qgis.org dns to the appropriate place?

Many thanks

Regards

Tim

2008/6/3 Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>:
> I'll chat with my sys admin today about setting up a mirror.  The Planet has
> done a stellar job of reestablising H1.  If you talk to 'em, please pass my
> compliments.  I'm really impressed!
>
> gerry
>
> Tim Sutton wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gerry
>>
>> Thanks for the offer to help. I do have backups but it will probably take
>> longer for me to get them to you than it would take for the datacenter to
>> restore their service (they expect it to come online again sometime today).
>> It may be nice in the future to set up a mirror to deal with future outages
>> more elegantly.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> Em Jun 1, 2008, às 12:17 PM, Gerry Creager escreveu:
>>
>>> Tim,
>>>
>>> How much space is needed to host the website and wiki?  I might be able
>>> to help.  Do you have content backed up someplace besides ThePlanet?
>>>
>>> gerry
>>>
>>> Tim Sutton wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>> The data center I use for hosting qgis.org and wiki.qgis.org has
>>>> suffered a significant outage (see below).  Hopefully service will
>>>> resume later today.
>>>> Regards
>>>> Tim
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: The Planet Marketing <email at info.theplanet.com>
>>>> Date: 2008/6/1
>>>> Subject: H1 Data Center Outage
>>>> To: tim at linfiniti.com
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>>>> Dear Valued Customers:
>>>> This evening at 4:55 in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted,
>>>> creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls
>>>> surrounding our electrical equipment room   Thankfully, no one was
>>>> injured.  In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost.
>>>> We have just been allowed into the building to physically inspect the
>>>> damage.  Early indications are that the short was in a high-volume
>>>> wire conduit.  We were not allowed to activate our backup generator
>>>> plan based on instructions from the fire department.
>>>> This is a significant outage, impacting approximately 9,000 servers
>>>> and 7,500 customers.  All members of our support team are in, and all
>>>> vendors who supply us with data center equipment are on site.  Our
>>>> initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some
>>>> service restored by mid-afternoon on Sunday.  Rest assured we are
>>>> working around the clock.
>>>> We are in the process of communicating with all affected customers.
>>>> we are planning to post updates every hour via our forum and in our
>>>> customer portal.  Our interactive voice response system is updating
>>>> customers as well.
>>>> There is no impact in any of our other five data centers.
>>>> I am sorry that this accident has occurred and apologize for the impact.
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Douglas J. Erwin
>>>> Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
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>>> --
>>> Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager at tamu.edu
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>>
>> Tim Sutton
>> QGIS Project Steering Committee Member - Release Manager
>> Visit http://qgis.org for a great open source GIS
>> openModeller Desktop Developer
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>>
>
> --
> Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager at tamu.edu
> Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University
> Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3983
> Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843
>



-- 
Tim Sutton
QGIS Project Steering Committee Member - Release Manager
Visit http://qgis.org for a great open source GIS
openModeller Desktop Developer
Visit http://openModeller.sf.net for a great open source ecological
niche modelling tool
Home Page: http://tim.linfiniti.com
Skype: timlinux
Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net