[Sca-cooks] Flori-thingie Down?

[Stefan li Rous]

  Mairi Ceilidh asked:
> Is my computer on strike or is the Florilegium really unaccessible?  I
> remember someone saying something about it several days ago, but I
> thought Stefan said it was working again.  I haven't been able to
> access it toda or yesterday.
Yep, still down. :-(
I talked to my friend, who hosts the site, Sunday night and he was 
going to look at it on Monday morning. Part of the problem is that the 
server is physically about 90 minutes south of him. He is getting ready 
to move it to a new site only a few miles away and upgrade the server. 
Unfortunately, the communication line will drop from a T3 line to a 
pair of T1s. Considering the other websites on the server, the 
Florilegium is the main user of that bandwidth. To the non-computer 
professionals out there, that means we will be moving from a big pipe 
to a pair of smaller ones. The server is old (in computer terms) and 
the software needs to be upgraded. Something is keeping him from 
logging into the machine from home, among other things.

This is the longest time that the Florilegium has been down. I couldn't 
reach my friend tonight to get an update, but being a computer 
programmer he may have been off working on the problem.

I did recently hear on the Rialto an idea about setting up a PayPal 
account and letting people make donations to a website using this. I am 
considering doing this since it would allow a way to collect some money 
to defray the costs of the website without being too intrusive or using 
advertising or going to a paid membership only format. It is possible 
that with money coming in such downtimes as is happening right now 
could be reduced.

In the meantime, if anyone wants any of the files from the Florilegium, 
please feel free to email me and I will send copies to you by email. 
Please do tell me if you want the files in text, RTF or HTML format. 
This offer also extends to the 40 page filelist of all the files. Just 
be aware that it is almost 300K in size.

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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