Re: Problems with GroupStudy

apology accepted ... but rather then that i have to thank you to introduce
such a nice thing to us and other professional ... we are all IT people here
and we know the "power of DOWN" whatever you do and whatever level of
investment and efforts you put but in IT all must taste the power of down
... :D ...

thanks for your efforts ...

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Paul Borghese <pborghese_at_groupstudy.com>wrote:

> 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.
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> 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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