[Nfb-web] [gui-talk] NFB website and related sites temporarilyunavailable?

[Peter Donahue]

Hello everyone,

    Perhaps someone needs to talk to Dr. Maurer and the national staff about 
cloud computing. They could have "Spun" up a cloud server and placed our 
national sites on it to keep them available during the in-house server 
upgrade and shut them down when the upgrade was complete. There would have 
been no need to take them down for this upgrade. Perhaps next time.

    We use a cloud application to remotely store lots of our important 
files. With cloud computing you only pay for what you need. You can add 
resources and discontinue them when not needed. You only pay for what you 
use so the savings can be substantial.

    The cloud storage application we're using is called JungleDisk and is 
very accessible with JAWS. We're using JFW 12.0 and are running the 
JungleDisk application under Windows XP Home, XP Professional and Windows 7 
Home Premium. It's working great in all three environments. There are also 
JungleDisk apps for the iPhone, Blackberry, and Google's Android so you can 
always have access to your data at home and on-the-road.

    The cloud storage package we have through Rackspace is called Cloud 
Drive Work Groups. If you want to run Cloud Drive on a desktop be sure to 
install the Work Groups Edition. We learned that the hard way. The Rackspace 
folks provided outstanding service to us to get everything up and running 
properly.

    They also have other Cloud services such as Web site hosting, server 
backup and the Gardner's Magic Quadrant. Learn more at: 
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    It's great to see everything back up and running. All the best.

Peter Donahue



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Lee" <dgl at dlee.org>
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Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] NFB website and related sites 
temporarilyunavailable?


And I said I saw the announcement on Twitter. Come to think of it
though, the announcement may have come from one of the NFB mailing
lists. I'm not sure now.

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:01:03PM -0800, Mike Freeman wrote:
On the other hand, you *did* find out when you couldn't access the site.
What more did you need?

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Humberto Avila
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 9:20 AM
To: 'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] NFB website and related sites
temporarilyunavailable?

And they have to mjust pick twitter? Can't they also use facebook, or even
simpler, an email to communicate this? Given that I am not a twitter user, I
did not know about this until I went to that web site and spending my
precious time and finding that my finding have just resulted in an error
message? Wow!

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Doug Lee
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 12:09 AM
To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] NFB website and related sites
temporarilyunavailable?

I saw a Twitter announcement earlier this week that the NFB site would be
going down for maintenance this weekend, I think for about 24 hours. So it
should be back soon.

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:54:12PM -0800, Humberto Avila wrote:
hello everybody,

I'm not sure what's up with teh NFB website. I tried to go to it and I got
an error page saying, "page not found." this also impacted the NFB newsline
(r) web site, and NFB Newsline Online Website as well.
If you know when the web sites will be restored please let me know,
otherwise, just a heads up for you.

Sincerely,
Humberto
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