There is something causing hideously slow performance on agora, and I’m not sure what – the file server is performing fine and the other vms are fine, but there’s no processes using cpu on agora, so I’m puzzled, and I’m heading out of town tomorrow for the next week and a half…
I have a new mail server about ready to go – set up a second account on server squab.rdrop.com (everything else the same) and let me know and I’ll redirect your mail there.
I managed to get a license key and vms are coming back online …
vmware decided to invalidate free licenses without warning and all vms have shut down. I’m scrambling to get a new one, but they don’t make it easy to do business with them.
vm server rebuild complete, all services should be operational
shutting down vms for server rebuild
All systems will be down Wed evening (Apr 19) to rebuild the vm server
vmware server lost a disk and got corrupted, pieced back together and systems running again, but will need to take down and reinstall with new disks Real Soon Now…
…rebooting
The file server ran low on disk space, which causes performance to degrade in a major way. space has been freed up and things are back to normal…
I’ve made a minor change to the way you connect to mail; it *should* be transparent, but let me know if there are issues…