[Info-vax] Eisner offline for a few days

[Tym Stegner]

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On Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 8:23:11 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-08-30, Hunter Goatley  wrote:
> > On 8/27/2020 7:05 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> >> Eisner is on the move again.
> >> 
> >> VSI are moving most of their systems to a co-location facility and
> >> Eisner will not be available for the next few days after it is shutdown
> >> some time on Thursday.
> >> 
> >
> > EISNER is back online! The IP address has changed, but the change to 
> > eisner.decus.org seems to have propagated now, so you shouldn't have any 
> > trouble logging in.
> >
> > All seems to be OK, but let me know if you see anything unusual.
> >
> > Thanks to Rob for getting EISNER relocated and back up!
> >
> 
> Confirmed that I can connect and do various things just fine so far.
> 
> It would be interesting to know why VSI relocated most of their
> systems to a co-location facility. I wonder how that affects OS level
> development and doing, for example, cluster testing and development
> with various cluster interconnects (unless those systems are still local
> to VSI).
> 
> OTOH, having nodes in a co-location facility gives VSI more options for
> forming clusters with nodes both at remote locations and local to VSI.
> 
> Just curious why they moved the systems.
> 
> Simon.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley,
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.