Re: Problems with GroupStudy

I will second that. Much respect. Paul, you created a monster and I am
sure this beast is hard to tame sometimes.

I thought you were going to give up Cisco and go in to the Gas Station
business with Darby or something.

Serious question - HOW DO WE DONATE?

John

On 7/28/10 10:37 AM, "Tyson Scott" <tscott_at_ipexpert.com> wrote:

> Personally I see no reason to apologize for a free service having a
problem.
> Shoot we are all grateful for what you do for it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tyson Scott - CCIE #13513 R&S, Security, and SP
> Managing Partner / Sr. Instructor - IPexpert, Inc.
> Mailto: tscott_at_ipexpert.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Paul
> Borghese
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 1:32 PM
> To: CCIE GroupStudy; GroupStudy Cisco
> Subject: Problems with GroupStudy
>
> I would like to apologize for the recent GroupStudy outages. I have been
> running GroupStudy since 1998 and every year GroupStudy has gone down while
> I was on vacation. This year I was backpacking in Aspen, CO, miles from
any
> internet access points.
>
> I have been having problems with one of the servers in Texas. The server
> send about 1.5 GB/day of traffic. Recently the server has been running out
> of memory and crashing. I added additional swap space as a band-aid
> solution until I can build a new server. There are a few things you can do
> to help. If you notice you are not receiving e-mail messages, go to
> http://lists.groupstudy.com and see if the web page is responsive. If not,
> please send me a private e-mail with the subject 3LISTS.GROUPSTUDY.COM is
> Down2.
>
> Send me an e-mail saying you can not receive e-mail does not work as I
> receive about 10 of those a day, even when GroupStudy is working fine. In
> most cases it is always a local problem and takes me hours to investigate.
>
> Again, I apologize for the inconvenience. I have big plans to make
> GroupStudy the home you guys deserve, just need money and time to make it
> happen. The current software is mostly custom scripts I wrote over 10
years
> ago. To put that in perspective, some of the scripts are older than
Google,
> and virtually the entire site is older than Facebook.
>
> Thanks for sticking with GroupStudy!
>
> Paul Borghese
>
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