For those not in the affected areas of Arcata and McKinleyville, or who have not received notice, PG&E has a planned major power outage (6000 customers) on March 13th/14th that will affect our servers. The notice says 2 pm (Pacific) on the 13th through noon on the 14th, but talking to them they say that it will go down sometime between 2 and 8 on the 13th and return between 6am and noon on the 14th.

We will keep the servers running until 7pm on the 13th and start the generator again at 8am on the 14th, assuming it is needed.

Major weather could cause a postponement of the project.

this thing runs on a local server?

Yes. I have a rack of servers in my Arcata business.

LCCF members are reminded that dbirdman hosts this forum at his expense.

Yes, THANK YOU SO MUCH dbirdman!

this doesnt run off of ubb.threads. com or whatever, wow, kudos, i have problms with local servers. NICE, how many gigabytes is this site?

I didn't know the answer until you asked. So far this site is tiny, only around 50MB of disk space other than the database. Another forum I host on the same server has, with ancillary stuff, around 3.3GB after 7 years. Since that server has 158GB of free space on the drive I'm not exactly worried about it!

These days with hosting the issue is bandwidth, not server space. All of the sites I host, including my business, use an average of 200Kbps during business hours and 100Kbps at night, on a 1536Kbps T-1 line. So again, nothing to worry about.

whats your profession, your pretty geeky. (i like this guy!)

Oh, I wear the geek label OK, but consider that I'm old enough to be your grandfather!

I call myself "semi-retired" since I haven't had to do much of the day-to-day business stuff for many years. I do the software, website, networking, stuff like that, mostly remotely. Business link is at the bottom of all of these pages; substitute .net for the .com to get my personal site.

lol, nice, i love the tech field, though i plan to go to the med field. its fun to mess up expencive equirment!