Re: News on AIOE's outage

Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote:
> 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?

Or his alarm clock broke and he's still asleep.