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Notice: FIP Problems and Coming Changes
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2012-02-19 01:11:01 (13 weeks ago)
Submitted by By: JWSmythe
Posted By: Intellpuke
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First off, I'd like to apologize to all of our readers for recent difficulties that we have been having. This message will get a bit technical, for those who care.
Our primary cause of this is the fact that our server is ancient. It's a dual 1.4Ghz AMD Opteron 240 server with 1GB RAM. When we upgraded to it in 2004, it was a bleeding edge state of the art machine. Now, it will make a lovely and large paperweight. It's faults are probably due to age, and likely a failing motherboard. Everything tests fine, except when it crashes with no logged entries. As any NOC technician knows, those are the worst, as there are no indicators of what is wrong.
We are trying to move our servers to a new location. This was suppose to happen on Feb 10th, but someone in the Verizon Business FiOS department has dropped the ball. For the last 8 days, we have been waiting to receive the email and phone call "within 24 hours" telling us our assigned IP block, so we can use our new line. Right now, it's a lovely decoration to our server room. If anyone has any pull with Verizon, the tech support ticket number is "FLCP08TQ5E". While I have enjoyed the the hour long calls every day this week, we're not getting anywhere fast. Today, we were hopeful, but again we have not received our email with our new IP information, nor the promised follow up call.
The reason for the move is not any sort of negative reflection on the very kind company who has donated connectivity and server space to us for the last few years. They have gone above and beyond for us quite a few times, and we thank them. Unfortunately, to get to our servers, it's a 3 hour round trip, and besides replacing our primary server, we need to upgrade to several more machines. We don't want to become a burden.
As most of you know, some of you are gracious enough to make donations to us, and we do appreciate that. We also make a few dollars from the Google ads on the page. Unfortunately, what we bring in over the course of a year does not represent even one month's cost for our new connection, and would barely make a dent in the cost of the new equipment. Our 9th anniversary will be on April 7th of this year. Over that span, almost all of our costs have been out of pocket.
We honestly appreciate every donation that we receive, and every time you click on the ads. Every little bit helps. We would like to encourage you, not only to make donations, but help us spread the word about Free Internet Press. Tell your friends and family about us. Feel free to talk about us on message boards, forums, and even your Facebook page. Our feed shows up on our Facebook page. If you find a story informative, click "Like" on our posts there, or click the "Recommend" link as shown on every story on our site.
Until we get our FiOS line working properly, and our new servers online, we have disabled the daily newsletter, as well as the News Aggregator feeds. You can still view our page normally, and our RSS feed, Facebook page, and Twitter feeds will continue to work normally. We hope to add many new features in the coming weeks, once we are up and operational in our own facility.
As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions. Please feel free to send those to editor@freeinternetpress.com. We are driven by your comments, and we always appreciate your news submissions.
And of course, we appreciate your continued support, through donations, kind emails (thanks everyone), and sharing us with your friends and family.
JWSmythe
Owner/Editor
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