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From: mfrankow@winternet.com (Michael Frankowski)
Newsgroups: winternet.announce
Subject: Late Night
Date: 13 Jul 1996 03:38:59 GMT
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Summary: late night thoughts
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Winternet,

  Today the local web server www.winternet.com had a runaway process
driving the machines load up to about 33.51, before being brought under
control and back down to its normal 1.12.  During this time any
contact with the server was slow, and unsure. Many customers have also
notices that a lot of the links off of our home page --such as
Announcements-- are not working correctly. These links point to
services that customers donated to Winternet and they feel that it is
time to move on.  We will be finding these links and replacing them
with other links to bring our home page back to the high standard that
Doug Rou helped bring it too. The commercial servers were unaffected
by any of this and have been running since Monday. If you have any
questions about Web service please speak with Yuk Ki Lau
(yukki@winternet.com) our new Web Consultant.

  Well just when I thought I had the phone system solved it decided to
go and pull a fast one on me.  As I reported earlier we had a tech out
too look at the phone system, and to "bring it under control." Well he
got it too the point where we could answer the phone, but now the
phone system will not answer the phone at all. Six of one, and half a
dozen of another. We have called the tech again and we will give this
another try, but at this moment the phone system will not pick up and
answer at all, it will just let the system ring forever. If you need
to get our attention please fax us at (612) 333-1507, or email
root@winternet.com with your problem and we will work to get it solved
as fast as possible. Hopefully the tech can get the phones right by
Monday, time will tell.

  Thank you for patience,

  More news to follow ...