Robi wrote:

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

For me (and it looks like most others, too) it does not:

http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/fcgi-bin/fcgi?email=bgawert%40gmx.de&cmd=user_stats_new

"Web Server Error
The page you selected is temporarily down or disabled. Sorry for the
inconvenience. Please try again later."

The main page works fine, but everything dynamically generated is dead, and
this for several days now...

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.

Just another sign of bad planning...

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.

You didn't miss anything since there is none...

Has anybody
there issued a "official" statement other than what in on the
tech-news page?

No.

When a server is overwhelmed and you don't have the funds, then there
is not much you can do.

If they have sponsors like Sun I really doubt another web server doing the
dynamical content is really a problem. And even if it would be the case,
just saying nothing and leaving the users with non-working pages is not
really a way of honoring the donated CPU time...

At least the server that handles the WUs is
running smoothly. I would complain if that one would be out of reach.

Well, I'm quite sure _that_ one would be fixed ASAP as it's the one the SETI
people gain their advantages. The other server is just for the users so who
cares?

Benjamin