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15 Aug 2004, 04:20 PM | #61 |
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The times on the weblog need to be fixed. I don't know what time zone it's running on but it's not PDT for sure.
This sucks. I don't even check my mail that often. With the amount I'm paying I expect better uptime. |
15 Aug 2004, 04:27 PM | #62 |
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the other thread went into technobabble, and my feeling is that this is the very stuff FM needs to read. During most outages, the FM guys get pats on the backs when it's over and cheering sections along the way. This should not be the case this time. Sorry, but this is more of a pain than I am willing to deal with, yet I must. If I must, so must they.
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15 Aug 2004, 04:34 PM | #63 |
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Yes.... This is bad. I may now just have to settle for a combination of my school's 25mb IMAP box and Yahoo! Mail. If Yahoo! Mail or GMail provide IMAP in the future, either one will be my main choice. I also my decided to set up a website with DreamHost again. They provide great IMAP e-mail, and the SquirrelMail interface.
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I had my reasoning assumptions for that but I forget what they are... I think because both "smtp.us" (the primary) and "smtp.us2" are in the same NYI data center, I figure any problem that would cause the first to go down without affecting the second, would likely only be very minor short-lived outages, so it's not worth having the 3rd-party MX server step in on those very temporary fluctuations. But if both the NYI servers go down (or the whole NYI facility went offline), it could possibly be due to a larger problem leading to a longer downtime, in which case I think it's good to have the 3rd-party MX step in before the "smtp.eu" Texas server so I can receive and read new emails in the backup account immediately... Edit: I can't recall now, is "smtp.us2" also a store-and-forward (backup queueing) server that forwards to "smtp.us", or can it deliver to the mailstore directly?? Does anyone know? Last edited by bitequator : 15 Aug 2004 at 04:47 PM. |
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15 Aug 2004, 04:39 PM | #65 |
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Thanks for pointing out the PDT problem - fixed now. The times are actually UTC.
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15 Aug 2004, 04:39 PM | #66 |
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Fastmail is supposed to be email for power users. If this happens again I'm moving to Runbox.
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15 Aug 2004, 04:39 PM | #67 |
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At least Turner Classic Movies has Bogart films on all night. Twenty minutes to go, right?
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15 Aug 2004, 04:56 PM | #68 |
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Ok now the login page loads but can't log in - takes right back to the outage message.
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15 Aug 2004, 04:57 PM | #69 |
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Oops... spoke too soon.... webmail is back up now... so is IMAP.
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15 Aug 2004, 04:59 PM | #70 |
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Just a heads up... FM is back up now.
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15 Aug 2004, 05:01 PM | #71 | |
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But something else struck me in the course of this discussion -- if the database is what's down, then why is the "smtp.us" server too down (for mail to go to ur backup servers)? Ofcourse, I assume the database would be separate from the smtp servers -- to keep the load etc separate -- and so if they are both on the same machine, then yeah, I understand why "smtp.us" is down. But then again, even if the database and "smtp.us" are on the same machine (and so "smtp.us" is down), wouldn't "smtp.us2" be up and thus mail not getting delivered to your backup mail servers? |
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15 Aug 2004, 05:03 PM | #72 |
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Yes, but mail that was sent to me hours ago, even before the official downtime is still not there. I forwarded something without knowing there was downtime and it's not there.
Of little use yet. CML and a mail that was sent since it's been back up is not there yet. |
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15 Aug 2004, 05:32 PM | #74 | |
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Where does smtp.us2 fit into this picture? If the database is down, does that too not accept mails? (I know the answer is yes, coz if it had been accepting mails, then they would have gone to bitequator's backup servers ... still, thought I'd confirm). |
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15 Aug 2004, 08:30 PM | #75 | |
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IMO this is an inherent flaw in architecture. |
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