On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Dave Page wrote:

> No, it's common sense. Marc's day job is running his servers which he 
> knows inside out. Mine is running Vale Housing's servers. I'll back up 
> Marc as far as the postgresql.org resources are concerned but neither I, 
> nor anyone else can be expected to know his systems as well as he does 
> and it is inevitable that it will remain quicker and easier for him to 
> fix most issues - which in almost every case he does (I woke him at 3AM 
> yesterday for example). Similarly I wouldn't expect anyone but a member 
> of my staff to be able to fix an issue on a Vale server as quickly as I 
> might.

As an appendum to this ... in over 10 years, what happened this summer is 
a first ... and only due to several things happening at once, the biggest 
problem not being that the server went down, but that I was in between a 
move ... had the server gone down either before, or after, the move, gborg 
would have been back up and running within 6-12 hours ... thanks to a 
friend, I was able to get the backup server onto a network, but it was a 
very slow network, one that it would have taken gborg >40 hours to upload 
from the backup server ...

Right now, all postgresql.org related vServers are backed up to the local 
network, onto a second 64bit HP Proliant server, in case the one their are 
on blows up ... as well, they are all backed up to a backup server on my 
network here ... as well, over the next couple of days now that things 
have finally started to quiet down, they will also be backed up to a 
second *off site*, 64bit server, where they could come online very quickly 
in case all my servers happen to blow sky high ...