Stop Microsoft
Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: CommonSense on 21 December 2002, 12:09
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In case you didn't see it elsewhere, here's a basic rundown.
Last Friday (the 13th, ironically), two admins at i2net.com, where this site was hosted for a couple of good years, had a big fight. So one -- the one I don't know -- got pissed and unplugged fuckMicrosoft.com's box and cut it off from the Internet. The admin I DO know, who posts on here as runkpock, fortunately had colocation lined up elsewhere (though he wasn't planning to resort to that quite this soon). So when he got some time, he moved the box over there.
Mail was another issue, because it was on another machine, along with a lot of other i2net domains' mail. Unlike the webserver box, it didn't belong to runkpock, so he had to copy over all the mail data.
Now, with about 37,000 free mail forwards and counting, this took a LONG time to do. But as of late Friday night (the 20th-21st), we finally have nearly all e-mail addresses and forwards moved, without losing anything. When the new mail server went live, many hundreds of megabytes moved through the server for an hour or two. The outbound traffic was bursting as high as 8 MB/sec at some points to catch up with the week's worth of mail. It should be trickling into your mailboxes as I type this.
The virtual hosts are the next thing, but that shouldn't take too long. Within a couple of days, that should be moved over. It's not that we don't have the zone files; it's that we're moving from BIND to djbdns. DNS is a bit flaky as a result, but not just because of this; it's also because our new colocation facility relies a lot on Cable & Wireless -- a division of Worldcom. The incompetent, bankrupt Worldcom. So we're working on peering with another ISP or two, and getting backup DNS and, ultimately, even backup MX servers.
I have no idea why, but runkpock is committed to having as close to 100% uptime as possible, and kicking reliability much higher, so a clusterfuck like this past week doesn't happen again.
Hey, I'm just glad this guy's on OUR side. (http://smile.gif)
OK . . . questions?
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^bump^
just for people who might not have seen it
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I'm just curious who owns the servers and who pays for the bandwidth and colo fees? Or does Runkpock and the colos donate their resources out of the kindness in their heart and/or because they dislike Microsoft and find this a worthy cause? Or are T-Shirt and vhost sales enough to keep you in the black? Too many questions? (http://smile.gif)
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I'd like to thank Webmaster and Runkpock for keeping this place up. Didn't know it was so complicated.
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Let's hear it for the Webmaster and Runkpock !! HIP...HIP...HOORAY!!
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Well at least it wasnt a DOS attack.
Say webmaster, are you interested in setting up mirrors, you should talk to the quirk.
Also i added you to my Gaim (AIM) list and your never online.
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Originally posted by X11:
Say webmaster, are you interested in setting up mirrors, you should talk to the quirk.
Uh..?
[ December 21, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / B0b ]
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Originally posted by void main:
I'm just curious who owns the servers and who pays for the bandwidth and colo fees? Or does Runkpock and the colos donate their resources out of the kindness in their heart and/or because they dislike Microsoft and find this a worthy cause? Or are T-Shirt and vhost sales enough to keep you in the black? Too many questions? (http://smile.gif)
The servers are Runkpock's (now, anyway); he has his own business based on them. It's a "goodness of their heart" arrangement. The vhost and product sales are basically occasional dinner money; that's about it. And with Cafe Press pulling the plug on our online store, it's now closer to dinner money for an insect . . .
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Originally posted by Webmaster:
The servers are Runkpock's (now, anyway); he has his own business based on them. It's a "goodness of their heart" arrangement. The vhost and product sales are basically occasional dinner money; that's about it. And with Cafe Press pulling the plug on our online store, it's now closer to dinner money for an insect . . .
You could set up your own Paypal store if/when you have the time.
Also, the Apple stores around here are great! They give away so much stuff. I bought a new Incase sleeve for my PowerBook ($40), and they gave me 3 sets of poetry magnets...
When I bought Jaguar (and stood in that line...) they gave me a Jaguar mousepad, and a tee-shirt.
I wonder what you get if you buy a whole Mac! (http://tongue.gif)
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Yea im angry like the most furious man in taiwan about cafepress, i was gonna buy a fuckmicrosoft mug the other day and now i cant.
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My praise goes out to Runkpock and the webmaster!
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I am angry like the most furious russian in texas.
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I am angry like most furious Belgium in space.
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i am angry like the biggest bob leader in eskimoland
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Originally posted by X11:
i am angry like the biggest bob leader in eskimoland
I'm just angry.
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i am furious like a kitten on speed