Hi box team,
I subscribed to your mailing list to coordinate common goals and problems more easily. I'm sure that way we'll be able to make a whole Squeak infrastructure better and better.
What we need to do first in my opinion is to enhance the availability of the services, for me as from webteam the website is of primary importance. During the recent few days downtime I was thinking a lot about that and decided to propose you a solution, which will reduce such a downtime to few hours most.
Solution is a classical one: increase redundancy by making a mirror website, which is in hot backup mode, that is, it can be put online immediately, just by changing the DNS pointer. I'm actually having such backup in place for my servers and it works perfect. It is also not hard to configure, you put a rsync script in place to mirror the changes of website from time to time, say every day or even every hour.
We need an additional server for that of course, well, for a while I can offer my one (pingo.eranova.si).
Later we can mirror other services too, ok, mailing list could be harder to mirror I suppose. But at least we put instructions what to do on the our website first page in case of such a long downtime.
Best regards Janko