[olug] Sorry about the slow website

[Eric Penne]

I know you did and I didn't take you up on the offer because I got busy
and the project had a whole bunch of other places say they would
mirror.  I miscalculated and F*****d up.

Eric

--- Nate Rotschafer <writetogenius at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Eric---
> 
> I think I had offered if you need it to throw it up on my server
> since mu
> bandwidth has been dropping down I would have more bandwidth for that
> if you
> require it...
> 
> Thanks,
> Nate
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Penne" <epenne at yahoo.com>
> To: <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 2:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [olug] Sorry about the slow website
> 
> 
> > I think I may be to blame.  I was hosting a 300MB iso image in my
> users
> > directory for use by the developers of the project.  We were
> looking
> > for additional mirrors for our project and had quite a few.  I
> thought
> > that the additional mirrors would relieve olug.org of the bandwidth
> if
> > we got slashdotted.  Maybe not.  2 of the developers wrote a nice
> > article on newsforge and then submitted the newsforge article link
> to
> > slashdot.  They were hoping that the newsforge link would weed out
> most
> > of the "download because I have bandwidth" people.  This happened
> > Saturday morning and I haven't been able to see much of olug.org
> since.
> >  Looks like Brian got the OLUG list going again.
> >
> > I hope it wasn't me and this was a hardware failure, but if not, I
> > apologize.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
> > --- Brian Wiese <bwiese at cotse.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:55:03 -0800 (PST)
> > > Eric Penne <epenne at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > |I think olug.org has been slashdotted.  Brian, hows the
> bandwidth?
> > > |
> > > |Eric
> > > |
> > >
> > > ok, we'll at least now I get a text that says "OFFLINE".  Whats
> up?
> > > When
> > > will it be back online?... I've been telling a lot of people
> about
> > > the
> > > upcoming installfest, and telling them to check out olug.org...
> =(
> > > Tim
> > > notified the Sansug as well about the installfest.  Server
> relocation
> > > or
> > > something, whats up?  Maybe we were /.'d due to the upcoming
> > > installfest?
> > > lol
> > >
> > > peace
> > >
> > >   Brian Wiese | bwiese at cotse.com | aim: unolinuxguru
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