Re: News on AIOE's outage

Tony <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Mar 2023 14:15:18 -0500
Newsgroups aioe.news.helpdesk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[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.
> 


Maybe someone he knows can fork over a couple of bucks so he can fix it. 
I think of the elementary children who aren't able to learn now that 
AIOE is down so long.