On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Tim Byars wrote:
> On 12/18/98 at 9:01 PM -0600, C. Dale let the world know this:
>
> > Speakin of things being gone, if anyone's interested, check out
> > www.ml.org/news.html
> >
> > I'm sad as hell to see this. It was a great project, and I can't believe
> > they are actually giving up? I'm going to do some more research and mail
> > them myself with such harrassment as:
> >
> > "I DON'T GUESS YOU GUYS RUN LINUX, HUH? LINUX GEEKS WOULD NEVER JUST GIVE
> > -UP- ON SUCH A HUGE SUCCESSFUL PROJECT THAT TAUGHT SO MANY ABOUT DNS AND
> > WAS JUST A COOL LINUX/HIPPIE THING TO DO!"
>
>
> >From Them:
>
> Before I say anything else, I want to thank all the users involved with
> Monolith during its existance. Support and enthusiasm has made the project
> an enjoyable and worthwhile experience for everyone. Whether it be the
> crowd on the SYStalk mailing list, the tremendous turn out of the Monolith
> RC5 project, the overwhelming response to porting and creating DYNDNS
> clients for tons of platforms and tastes - the users have always been great.
>
> This decision has been made and approved by a majority of the board -- and
> with the recent tremendous server failure it seems even more appropiate.
> Pair networks has been more than accomodating to us but there is a limit to
> everyone's patience with a server that simply refuses to work -- quite
> simply, the hardware can not handle the load.
>
> Effective immediately, the project is over; however we do not want to and
> will not leave our most valued users, our donators, in jeopardy. While
> donations have always been just that -- a donation with no guarantee of
> service, those who have donated for a BASE.ORG name will continue to see
> service till their donation period ends -- your monetary support has been
> crucial so far. In addition, with the reduced workload to support our past
> donators only, we expect much less downtime.
>
> (A spell checker would have been nice)
>
> Anyway, my question is this. I can get a P-II 450 MHZ for around a Grand.
> Throw in another 128 megs of SDRAM for what? $200? Figure $3600 for three
> boxes.
>
> So 3 P-II 450 MHZ boxes running Linux or BSD should be able to handle what?
> 500K hits a day? How can so many people be blaming so much on server
> failure? I keep seeing this all of a sudden and I am having trouble
> believing it's "server failure."
>
>
> Tim
> --
>
> Happy Holidays!
> And the best of New Years...
>
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>