> On 05/20/2012 01:05 AM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
>> Nothing serious on this end fortunately. :-)
>>
>> The ISP that services the TDE server cluster had a localized equipment
>> failure, but instead of trying to fix the outage they decided to blame
>> the
>> customer (me).  This prolonged the outage significantly, even though in
>> the end it did turn out to be upstream ISP equipment failure.
>>
>> I do apologize for the outage; as you are probably aware the TDE
>> services
>> can only utilize a single carrier due to the long-term contractual
>> expense
>> of bringing out a redundant service provider to the server location.
>>
>> Tim
>
> Have we approached any of the high-bandwidth Universities or OpenSource
> outfits
> to see if they would be willing to provide mirror services?  I see so many
> run-of-the-mill projects that have mirror services all over the world. It
> sure
> seems like a favorable project like TDE would be a prime candidate to be
> accepted and helped by some of these institutions.

<snip>

We do mirror most of our static binary content on a worldwide mirror
system.  However, most of the TDE services are dynamic (GIT, Wiki, mailing
lists, searchable documentation, IRC, bugtracker, patch lists, etc.) and
therefore cannot (easily/safely) be mirrored.

Good idea though!

Tim