Re: Problems with GroupStudy

Yes, Paul like others I cant thank you enough really, you dont need to
apologize. GS has been invaluable to my study.
Like John asked how do we donate?

On 28 July 2010 19:08, John Lockie <john.lockie_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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