Re: News on AIOE's outage

Sn!pe wrote:
> 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.
> 

Either that or he has turned his back on the project.

I have been looking at the public information on his site(s) and 
discovered what most other people already knew, his server(s) are hosted 
by "Leaseweb Deutschland" and are probably in Frankfurt.  Does this not 
mean that a hardware error is their problem?