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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Dan Jezek writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > Has anyone heard anything from Dan himself lately? Last major outage he
> > periodically posted status.
> >
> > I haven't seen anything from him this time. Did anyone mail him to tell him
> > things are awry? I mailed him last time but felt rather silly when he
> > replied that he knew already. Wouldn't it be ironic if everyone was holding
> > off mailing him because no one wanted to bug him or tell him something he
> > knew already, but actually he didn't???
>
> I am aware of all the outages that are going on including the most recent
> one. I have an opened problem ticket since yesterday when the problem was
> first reported again. Looks like noone's working on it. First the site is
> down for 5 days last week, then in the middle of this week someone messes up
> the permissions which causes the main directory to be read-only and thus
> unable to update any data in the databases that are residing there including
> feedback, orders and the message forum and now the site is completely down
> again.
>
> 3 weeks ago I received an e-mail from an Interland account manager stating
> that brickbay is going over their allocated bandwith limit claiming 22GB/mo
> a month and said he would like to discuss a higher plan, otherwise he will
> take the site off the server in a week. Right now the site has allocated
> 10GB/mo. I wrote him back pointing out that on the site usage report
> Brickbay shows little under 5GB/mo. Did't get a response. I wrote him back
> about 2 more times, called him and left a message and didn't get a response.
> It's like talking to a brick wall. Then all of a sudden these problems
> started happening 2 weeks ago. In the worst case scenario they're trying to
> kill the site this way because it may be getting too many hits while staying
> well under the allocated limits. In the best case scenario someone screwed
> up really bad and Interland has horrible support. They could at least
> display a page stating that the site is down and estimated resolution
> date/time. I would do that myself but can't get to it even using FTP, the
> site is completely unusable.
>
> Someone mentioned another webhost, maybe dedicated. Can anyone recommend a
> reliable one? I would be willing to pay for a dedicated server except that
> from what I've been able to find out, it costs about $1000 a month for
> IIS/ASP/SQL server which is out of the question.
> Another solution is to host the site at home. I could get the hardware and
> software but the only thing I don't know how to do is to hook it up to the
> internet so it stays connected 24/7 and the DSN numbers stay attached to the
> server I would have at home permanently even if there is a power outage.
>
> I'll call Interland in the morning and try to get some sort of decent answer
> from them.
>
> Thanks for bearing with me in this strange situation.
>
> Dan
As frustrating as this all is, I think it has to be quite frustrating for
Dan to as he is the one who has to wear all our slack and disappointment (at
a guess). I am guessing that Dan can't post us about anything till he knows
what is going on himself, anything else would be just teasing us or giving
us uncertain hope. I hope Dan, that this does sort it self out (for you and
for us), I just wish I knew more about computers to help you out with
something. Maybe Dan could set up a donation thing where we can send him
money to help out in these situations, after all for most of us, without
this site we are stuck!... anyway I am sure every bit helps.
Mel (who misses her Brickbay shopping more than ever!)
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