Box-Admins Team Report for October, 2006

The box-admins team is reponsible for seeing that the community shared
server is maintained and setting up any new features to be hosted on
that server.

For October 2006:

The server was down for some period of time due to a power outage at the
hosting provider early in the month.  Clearly this was out of our
control but hopefully not likely to be replicated in the near future.

One thing this outage did point out was that we had not gotten around to
ensuring that some of the essential processes would automatically
restart when the system restarted so there was quick round of setting up
processes under daemontools ( http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html ).

A couple of new hostnames were setup that currently redirect to other
existing sites but may in time become the home for these services:

http://wiki.squeak.org/ -> http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/

http://news.squeak.org/ -> http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/

I would like to suggest that everyone get in the habit of using these
wherever they would have previously used the old addresses so we can get
in the habit and not be surprised when the old address stop working.

Brad Fuller is working on a new website for SqueakFoundation based on
Pier and hopefully there will be some news about that soon.

I want to thank the community for the monetary support needed to fund
these boxes and remind them that the bills continue to appear and that
you can currently contribute to the hosting bills by going to

http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/

and clicking on the 'donate' button at the top right.  Note that a
donation here may be used for other Squeak Foundation services including
but not limited to development, development infrastructure, and
promotion of Squeak.

The services being hosted have continued to grow and include (but are
not limited to):

http://www.squeak.org/

SqueakMap - http://map.squeak.org/

http://ftp.squeak.org/

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/

http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/

http://source.squeakfoundation.org/

http://map.squeak.org/

https://svn.squeak.org/

http://update.squeakfoundation.org/

and DNS services for squeak.org and squeakfoundation.org domain names.

Ken