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

Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
Received on Wed Jul 28 2010 - 13:32:16 ART