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| Author: | Al Amos [ Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | MagWeb |
Al: Just posted some e-mail to the Lace Wars. Hope it gets through. If not, perhaps you could post the following: To all: As many of you noticed, MagWeb.com was pulled offline for maintenance this month. What started as a "simple" fix ended up cascading like dominos into more and more complex gyrations. Worse, our ISP (which hosts our Sun server) was sold at the end of last year and decided February was a great time to consolidate their facilities--including our Sun box. Since e-mails to MagWeb go through our server, with the server offline, e-mails bounced. Nice double-whammy! It's enough to make you scream...which we did on Valentine's Day...and threaten to rip our Sun server out of their data center and find another company...which we also later did. I understand other companies bailed on this ISP as well--and if they were treated as we were, I don't blame them. This is a nightmare for a small single-server company like us here at Coalition Web, Inc. (our official corporate name. The product name is MagWeb.com). So, we grabbed our server and moved it to another ISP. I understand delays and pressure--Google and E-Bay occasionally go off-line, too. The difference is that they have more time, money, and clout than MagWeb. I apologize for the inconvenience. This put a wrinkle in our own efforts to keep up a pace posting 25-issue-per-month plus ME-Books. MagWeb didn't "lose" content--we're an archive, so it's all there--but we lost time and took a bloody tech-nose in the process. I would like to thank all of you--including members from Europe--who phoned to inquire and offer words of encouragement and understanding. We're investigating a number of alternatives for the future. We're working on being back on-line. Much of it is in the hands of the new company's techies. In the meantime, we'll have plenty of new issues available, including 7YW, Courier, El Dorado, and others. They're all finished and sitting in our production machine waiting for the server to be put on line. Please feel free to pass this message along to any other groups or folks who may have a question about MagWeb.com. Or, you can e-mail me direct at lockwood@voicenet.com. Thank you. Russ Russ Lockwood, CEO MagWeb.com On-line archive of military history and related magazines on the web since 1996 |
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