The box-admins team is reponsible for seeing that the community shared server is maintained and setting up any new features to be hosted on that server.
For November 2006:
Work on a Pier image for www.squeakfoundation.org continued with Brad Fuller.
I worked with Klaus Witzel in an attempt to track Google Ad hits on the websites.
Late in the month there was a problem on the server because the remote backup server was shut down but a daily process that attempts to backup to the server was not removed. These stacked up over weeks and ran up the usage considerably to the point that the server was highly unresponsive. Once I figured out the problem I cleaned it up and disabled the daily backup attempts. Other than a lack of overall backup, which will in time be addressed, things are back to normal now.
I want to thank the community for the monetary support needed to fund these boxes and remind them that the bills continue to appear and that you can currently contribute to the hosting bills by going to
http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/
and clicking on the 'donate' button at the top right. Note that a donation here may be used for other Squeak Foundation services including but not limited to development, development infrastructure, and promotion of Squeak.
The services being hosted have continued to grow and include (but are not limited to):
SqueakMap - http://map.squeak.org/
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/
http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/
http://source.squeakfoundation.org/
http://update.squeakfoundation.org/
and DNS services for squeak.org and squeakfoundation.org domain names.
Ken
box-admins@lists.squeakfoundation.org