Re: AdaIC.org

[Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>]

Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone know what's happened to www.adaic.org?
> 
> Our hosting company reports that the server holding our site (and a
> number of others) was broken into and trashed yesterday. They got it
> running for a while yesterday, but its now inoperative. They built and
> deployed a spare server, which was attacked the same way. This server
> supposely had all of the current patches. A second attempt also failed.
> This morning, they finally were able to trace the attack vector, and
> they've rebuilt yet another server which is supposed to be fully up
> (with the sites restored) in a couple of hours. We'll see.
> 
> In the mean time, I suggest using the backup server at www.adaic.com. I
> host that server here specifically so that it is very unlikely that both
> servers fail at the same time. (But www.adaic.com has a substantially
> slower connection to the Internet, so access to large files will be
> slower.)

Thanks for the info; all of my bookmarks use www.adaic.org. At least the 
AdaIC is still in business.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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