Originally posted by: amdxborg
Like I said, I can't believe they can just go and shutdown the servers with the ammount of user active in this project right now. If they were working for me, volunteers or not, I would have fired their asses a long time ago! ... Man I have worked weekends and nights to sort out issues far less importand then that!!!
Roger that - right on target!
I'm not currently doing S@H(though you all know I have done it quite a bit in the past).
I don't happen to have alot of sympathy for the project administrators whether they're volunteer or not; I happen to work for a publicly funded library system, so I too know what it's like to have limited funding, but trust me when I tell you that we put some serious thought into what we were going to need for server capability to run this system(WAN of mostly Microsoft/Citrix servers), along with tape backups every night, UPS(s) to supply critical online power and a natural gas generator for prolonged outages. It wasn't cheap, but the needs of our users(staff and public) are very imporant to us - they are our livelihood - we serve them. It's a question of priorities.
One of the TA members has the Heinlein quote in his sig about "keeping all your eggs in one basket".. there is NO reason why Berkeley couldn't have partnered up with another big university on say the East Coast or another country to provide some redundancy capability for a project of this magnitude, no reason whatsoever.
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