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[Roberto Quiñones <roberto AT acshell.net>]

2013/1/10 Jamyn Shanley <jshanley AT gmail.com>:
> Feel free to ping me if you need help with something.
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> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Travis McCrea <me AT travismccrea.com> wrote:
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>> I was going to write this email a week or so ago, but honestly I have
>> been kinda embarrassed to actually say it:
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>> The server that the dotPirate project was on was shut down due to a
>> series of high CPU loads and various problems as well as a host who
>> didn't handle a situation properly. Due to a communication problem
>> (which, as the manager of the project, I take full responsibility for),
>> dotPirate did not have a MySQL backup.
>>
>> This means that /all/ dotPirate records were lost. I am ashamed that I
>> made a big mistake like this. I also have asked the developer who
>> maintains the dotPirate project to work on another project, because our
>> main website (TUEBL) which brings in the funding I use to keep the
>> dotPirate project servers (and all the other donated VMs)... which is
>> further keeping us from getting dotPirate up and going.
>>
>> There is an upside:
>> The gallium install that we were using had a spam problem. Thousands and
>> thousands of domains were being registered falsely. I don't think you
>> guys had the same problem because your galium installs were not made
>> available on the ICANN web.
>>
>> So the reason we are not just throwing up a new version of gallium is we
>> are going to do it right, get a system that has some spam filtering and
>> such.
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>> This time we will also be keeping multiple redundant backups as we do
>> with all of our other sites.
>>
>> I am ready to revive and redo dotPirate to be better than ever. I hope
>> to work with some other people in the community to relaunch with some
>> other sites making dotPirate an option (I am looking at you NovaKing ;) ).
>>
>> Also I would love a hand from someone who wants to be involved in the
>> project, as our main developer for the dotPirate project is both busy
>> and not an expert in DNS (but rather PHP/MySQL) so having a DNS guy
>> would probably be useful.
>>
>> Thank you and I am sorry.
>> - --
>> Respectfully,
>> Travis McCrea
>> International Coordinator, Pirate Party of Canada
>> Chief Administrative Officer, Pirate Parties International
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>> http://travismccrea.com
>> http://twitter.com/teamcoltra
>> http://fb.me/teamcoltra
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