Benjamin Gawert wrote:

Robi wrote:

just FYI:
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/tech_news.html

[snip]

So, if you are getting such errors, check your URL - make sure that
the beginning is:
http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu
and not
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu.

That doesn't solve the problem, no matter if setiathome or setiathome2, the
only thing visible is a Server error.

For me it does solve it, since I get my stats. :)

They care, but they are also working on BOINC and that leaves them
little time for these fixes.

I for myself share the opinion lots of people posting in the seti forum
have: we (the users) donate them CPU power for free, so at least they should
care for the only motivation they offer for the users: the stats. Working on
a new project is certainly ok but that's no excuse for leaving a server of a
current active project unuseable for several days.

Ok, I donate CPU time for free too. SUN-microsystems and other companies have
and do donate hardware. That the server(s) is/are overwhelmed with requests
and work probably means that the system is getting too small or that there are
way too many things running on the server.

--- URL http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
--- Apache/1.3.24 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.2.12 PHP/4.1.2

--- URL http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu
--- Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.2.12 PHP/4.2.3

somehow I wish they'd upgrade to Apache 2.0.49 or at least 1.3.31 for the
two servers. Of course, that adds work depending on the additional modules
they run (or would need to compile and/or upgrade along with it).

Of course it's always possible for a server to fail, but letting a web
server fail for several days shows a very very bad light on the responsible
staff and the amount of care they offer for the system...

I don't follow the forums, and I don't know the response of the admins and
the interactions with the SETI/Berkeley staff. Has anybody there issued a
"official" statement other than what in on the tech-news page?

When a server is overwhelmed and you don't have the funds, then there is not
much you can do. At least the server that handles the WUs is running smoothly.
I would complain if that one would be out of reach.


-- 
Robi
(3.4#@ 3.14 yrs)