[olug] Sorry about the slow website

Nate Rotschafer writetogenius at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 9 20:45:00 UTC 2002


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
> >
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