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.
> 

AIOE is supposed to take top priority due to all the school children who 
now can't learn anything on usenet. Eternal September the guy who runs 
it is a snob and I don't use servers that people like that own. Avi 
Frreman or Freedman and that silent patient spider crap and who cares 
about patient spiders?