Re: [orca-list] new orca list e-mail subscribers

[Kyle <kyle free2 ml>]

Samuel Thibault spake thusly:
> On each power outage they have been struggling at worse for a couple of
> days, not more.


Fair enough, but there was another problem this week that has just been 
resolved within the past 24 hours. Was this a separate incident? Another 
power outage? That would in fact total three power outages in less than 
three months, one of which caused probably 5 days of service 
interruption, which is a pretty bad record for any server. If my VPS 
provider had anywhere near close to this type of downtime, I would most 
definitely look at the alternatives and start filing tickets to get 
credit for the rather dismal uptime. I do understand that Tuxfamily is 
probably on dedicated hardware rather than on a VPS that has a 99.9% 
uptime guarantee, but dedicated hardware is in many cases said to be 
more stable ... just so long as the lights stay on. These frequent 
outages that last longer than a UPS can handle don't bode well for any 
hardware, especially not hardware that is being used to host entire free 
and open source projects. Yes, I do understand that the people running 
Tuxfamily are said to be good and trustworthy people. But it's the power 
company that causes the concern here, not the people behind the site and 
services. Good and trustworthy people can't do their work when 
circumstances beyond their control keep flipping the light switch and 
turning off their computers.

~Kyle