#1 2014-07-14 14:35:14
Our first unplanned service interruption in 7 years, I believe... unless you count moving all the site files to null that once.
My updated credit information didn't register and our hosting service failed to alert me until after they suspended the account.
We ever go off line again, appreciate it if you'd take a moment and email me.
Apologies and thanks.
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#2 2014-07-14 14:46:47
This is a small community, I'm all in if you would like donations to help offset the cost.
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#3 2014-07-14 15:07:12
Emmeran wrote:
This is a small community, I'm all in if you would like donations to help offset the cost.
The next operating system upgrade should cut our hosting costs in half but in a sense, you're right. This group is stable and deserves a more secure footing, a way of managing in one person's absence. Any ideas?
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#4 2014-07-15 01:36:52
Gittip is a way to set up an ongoing (weekly) stream of funding; it allows donors to remain anonymous (at least to the recipient and the public at large). I've recently seen a reference to Patreon, although it seems more geared toward artists. Just checked it out tonight so don't know much about it.
Either one requires a person with a bank account on the other end, so there's still a single point of failure.
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#5 2014-07-15 02:33:28
There's always Cafe Press. There must be some souls out there sick enough to buy shirts and coffee cups emblazoned with High Street graphics.
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#6 2014-07-15 03:38:18
square wrote:
Either one requires a person with a bank account on the other end, so there's still a single point of failure.
That's the nut of my worry. The money is chump change.
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#7 2014-07-15 05:02:49
Weekly distributed backups might be the best bet, but I'm betting that that's a lot of data to be spreading around.
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#8 2014-07-17 10:06:32
Well, there are daily backups supposedly sent to two separate locations. But to be honest, I don't know if these succeed, nor have I ever tried to restore from one of them.
Assuming the data's available, I would certainly be able to set up a replacement server should this one disappear (though it may take a bit of time). I have no access to the high-street.org domain name, however, and would have to choose a new one.
I'm not aware that anyone else has access to the data and knowledge of how to use it, though it's possible the members hosting the data backup locations have that ability.
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#9 2014-07-17 12:10:38
square wrote:
Well, there are daily backups supposedly sent to two separate locations. But to be honest, I don't know if these succeed, nor have I ever tried to restore from one of them.
I've loaded and tested the message base backups routinely without issue. The domain names remain vulnerable when, as happened recently, our domain server gets spiked by a major ISP half a day without warning. Email is also a problem, for the same reason. On they other hand, the site's domain names are now all in one place. Properly resurrecting a capable operating system won't happen in a hurry. All these issues deserve another look.
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