[oclug] oclug was here

[Rod Giffin]

On Tuesday 27 August 2002 04:27 pm, Raymond Wood wrote:

> Well the last two outages the OCLUG server has had have been
> exactly as you describe:  network as opposed to web server
> outages.
>
> So the limited empirical evidence available so far, since the
> new OCLUG server was deployed, seems to support your thesis  :)

I've also experienced the same thing with my web site.  It hasn't crashed in 
a year, but it's network connection has been down three times that I know of.

I wonder if there's a way to co-operate with other small website owners and 
build a bit of redundancy into the network?  It's an idea that I've had for a 
while now, but never spent a lot of cycles on.  

<sortrant>
I'd read some major ISP was advertizing a guarantee* of 98% uptime - which 
translates to something like 5 hours/week downtime.  Geez, my van is more 
realiable than that, and it's a Chrysler!  On top of that, except for one 
single time in it's 237,000 Km's it was actually able to drive to the garage 
on it's own power. 
(* you actually get a reduced bill if this is exceeded.)

Another analogy - would you get on a flight if the airline advertized a 
guarantee of 98% you'd get to your destination?
</shortrant>

Rod.