Re: status of machine hosting finkproject.org
Daniel Johnson <[email protected]>
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On Oct 18, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/18/12 11:38 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: >> What is the status of the machine hosting finkproject.org? There's been >> multiple inquiries about it on #fink and there has been no information >> forthcoming besides "the hosting company said the machine died". Is it >> being replaced? Can it be replaced? Has there been any other feedback >> from xs4all about this? Have other hosting options been looked at? >> >> From what I recall, that machine was a donated server and given Fink's >> budget, that's an important consideration. Dreamhost, for example, >> offers free shared server hosting to 501c3 groups. Was Fink's >> non-profit status ever finalized? >> >> Even if a permanent move else where is not feasible, could some sort of >> redirect be set up such that www.finkproject.org points to a functioning >> web page (at SF or github or ...) even if it's not the fully operational >> site? Ironically, a core member won't get this message because his >> fink-related email is hosted on finkproject.org... >> >> Hanspeter >> > > In addition, we should try to encourage the various rsync mirrors to > grab their information directly from the VCS repository (sourceforge CVS > now, github later?) rather than from phinch, so that users will continue > to get their updates. It's also apparent that mirroring of source files is also broken by the outage. I've confirmed that http://distfiles.ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net is still getting the latest files, and presumedly hnd.jp.asi.finkmirrors.net as well, but the other master mirrors aren't updating. This is beginning to break source downloading for users with MasterFirst. Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ fink-core mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-core