Michelle Poyourow
Everyone,
What's up with the OBRA server is that OBRA has been incredibly
generous for years in hosting the BCC site but this year it got too
big and stinky to be a good houseguest and crashed it.
We (at the BTA) are really sorry and horrified to have done this to
our wonderful OBRA friends and hosts and are scrambling around to buy
another server.
Your OBRA webmasters have been really helpful in trying to find a way
to make the BCC work on the OBRA server and to make the move to a new
server graceful, and we appreciate it very much.
We also appreciate your patience and we're sorry we crashed your site!
Michelle
Michelle Poyourow
Advocate, Educator
Bicycle Transportation Alliance
(503) 226-0676 x13
michelle@bta4bikes.org
Begin forwarded message:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:[OBRA Chat] What's Been Up With the OBRA Server
> Date:Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:05:25 -0700
> From:Scott Wilson
> To:obra@list.obra.org
>
>
> Hi everybody. I am sure you've noticed that the OBRA server has
> been slow and occasionally unavailable. First off: I'm sorry.
> Here's what's happened: we also host the Bike Commute Challenge
> website as kind of good neighbor deal that includes our fantastic
> free hosting from EasyStreet. Unfortunately, this year's updated
> BCC site has been too popular, and the server has been brought to
> its knees. We've tried to keep the site up, despite its problems,
> since getting people on bikes and out of cars is a good thing. But
> at this point, the problems have been so severe that we've just had
> to shut down the busiest parts of the BCC site. They're going to
> stay shutdown until the performance problems are proven to be fixed
> or the site moves to another server. Scott