Re: News on AIOE's outage

Don Spam's Reckless Son <[email protected]> wrote:

> [email protected] wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:29:39 +0100
> > Don Spam's Reckless Son <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Is there any site (or Newsgroup) which carries details of the AIOE
> >> situation?  Preferably a read-only one without all the self-indulgent OT
> >> trolling.
> >>
> >> What is known is that the Raid Controller failed catastrophically,
> > 
> > So much for RAID mitigating against data loss.
> > 
> >> killing (at least) all of the transient data.  My impression is that the
> >> backups were not as helpful as one would have hoped.
> >> Is AIOE going to make a comeback?  There have been outages before but
> >> this one has lasted a month and counting.
> > 
> > Setting up a server would take a morning so its probably a hardware issue,or
> > more specifically - money. Perhaps he simply doesn't have the funds to pay
> > for new kit.
> > 
> 
> I'm wondering if he lost his code as well.  That should not be the case,
> but something has to explain this.
> The raid controller has to be replaced (cost: under 100 € to over 2000
> €) but I imagine the discs could still be useable.
> This is still speculation and it would be good to know the facts.
>

The absence of any word whatsoever from Paolo makes me wonder 
if he might have some Real Life issues to deal with that take a higher
priority than does his service. 

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