Box-Admins Team Report for September, 2008

The box-admins team is reponsible for seeing that the community shared
server is maintained and setting up any new features to be hosted on
that server.

For September, 2008:

Well it's been a tumultuous month for the community server.  Between
September 12th and today (October 8th) the server has stopped responding
and had to be rebooted 7 times.  The reason why the server has become
non-responsive is currently unknown.  Each time I have looked through
the logs and found nothing relevant.  Marcus Denker has contact our
hosting company to try to determine if they can provide an explanation.
I delayed this report hoping to have some information on that, but I've
waited long enough.

With the exception of the unavoidable downtime there has been little
disruption.  Marcus setup a monitoring service also provided by the
hosting company so now he (and I) get email if the server can't be
pinged for more than a moment.  So now, in general, the server is
rebooted in about an hour.  All services have started up automatically
and cleanly every time (with an exception I will note below).

I'm confident that with a little time we will resolve this problem.
Hopefully I will have some good news in the next report on this issue.

Janko Mivsek and the WebTeam have been working on a new replacement
website for http://www.squeak.org/ for a while now and we finally
installed it.  The older Smallwiki based site can still be found
temporarily at http://old.squeak.org/ .  The site is still under
considerable development and while that is the case it is useful to run