Re: AIOE server timing out

Sn!pe wrote:
> 
> William Stickers <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > yamo' wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > William Stickers a tapoté le 26/01/2023 20:27:
> > > > Didn't the same thing happen to Albasani?
> > > 
> > > Yes but with somebody which didn't understand the work  
> > > made in the past on the server (May Be not documented...)
> > >
> >
> > I think he couldn't be arsed to fix it and so left it 
> > broke. As for Paolo, it would be easy for him to post 
> > what is up, but he hasn't. Maybe because he can't be 
> > bothered with it any more. It's not unheard of for 
> > newsadmins to walk away. Mike Horwath did that with his 
> > Octanews NSP.
> >
>  
> Albasani suffered when its founder and admin, Alexander Bartolich 
> (sp?) died young from a heart attack and his volunteer replacement
> lacked the expertise to recover it after a crash.  

ISTR that the new guy had a baby, or summit like that, 
and he just didn't have the time or inclination to fix 
the swerver. However, this is just from my rather poor 
memory.
  
> Weren't Mike's servers running on his employers machines?  I've an 
> idea that RFN, his text server, was still running there after Mike 
> left their employment.  I don't know this to be a fact, only rumour.  
> Anyway, I heard that RFN was knocked over by a DDOS attack after 
> Mike left and there was nobody with access to pick it up again.  

Yes, Mike was running Octanews on IPhouse's machines, but  
he was still in the employ of them when he walked away 
from Octanews. I know because I'd bought a block from 
him. He didn't answer any of the many questions put to 
him on the support group while his server threw up fault 
after fault before he pulled the plug. Yet at the same 
time he was posting on the IPhouse support newsgroup.
People get fed up with things and do a Reginald Perrin.