Website here - will it stay?

[Beholder3]

Hi,

today the servers to this site seem to have been down and the only place to get exiftool was http://exiftool.sourceforge.net/.

This created the question:
Any plans to move away from this server here?
It would be a shame if all the knowledge in these forums would be lost.

[Phil Harvey]

There have been some network problems in the Queen's Physics network in the past week while I was away.  The computers were all up, but a network gateway failed somehow.  I do automated daily backups of the forum, so we won't lose much except there will be a bit of down time if we have a hard disk crash.

One problem is that Queen's physics lost their I.T. guy as of a few weeks ago.  The department moved to use the centralized university-wide I.T. who aren't very quick to help with problems like this when they crop up.

- Phil

[Phil Harvey]

OK.  The network is down again as I am typing this.

The problem has been a temperamental network switch which is scheduled to be replaced, so hopefully this instability will be resolved soon.

- Phil

[Phil Harvey]

Update:

It seems our network problems have been solved.  The faulty switch was replaced a while ago and we haven't had any problems since (other than a power out during an electrical storm).

Also, I've added a new backup system that does hourly backups to a local disk in addition to the daily backups to a remote disk that I was already doing.

- Phil