English Amiga Board Down?

[danwood]

Anybody know the status on EAB?  Seems to have been off-line since around Thursday last week!

Hoping it's just some glitch and we haven't lost another valuable classic Amiga forum.

[Thorham]

Anybody know the status on EAB?  Seems to have been off-line since around Thursday last week!

Don't you mean since last night?

Hoping it's just some glitch and we haven't lost another valuable classic Amiga forum.

It hasn't even been 24 hours yet.

[danwood]

Don't you mean since last night?

It hasn't even been 24 hours yet.

Last time I tried was about 1am on Thurs night and couldn't get on then, tried again yesterday and today, just assumed it had been down the whole time.

Hope it's just server issues then if it's been up and down.

[Matt_H]

Probably just server issues. The whole abime.net ecosystem is down.

[Retrofan]

I don't have an idea about servers, but what can make a server like that or this or another go down for three days?

[digiflip]

hackers or not paying the server rents?

[buzz]

I don't have an idea about servers, but what can make a server like that or this or another go down for three days?

hardware failure with no mechanism to get a replacement in quickly for example.

or loss of data, and no backups (that should never happen of course but people still think they don't need backups for some reason)

[BinoX]

I don't have an idea about servers, but what can make a server like that or this or another go down for three days?

Long easter weekend so there's no techies in to fix it?

[Thorham]

or not paying the server rents?

Doubtful, because the admin (RCK) owns the server (if I'm not mistaken).

[Leffmann]

Some hardware failure. RCK posted on the Abime IRC chat that a hard reboot of the server had no effect, and that he would go to the network center on Tuesday after Easter to fix it.

[buzz]

Doubtful, because the admin (RCK) owns the server (if I'm not mistaken).

It is doubtful, but owning your own server does not mean you get no costs. The biggest costs with hosting are power and such. abime sounds co-located, so you still pay the hosting costs (Unless your mate owns the data center etc) ;-)

[LaserBack]

yes guys EAB is gone forever
here is the last message that RCK posted on youtube before EAB cessation

Hi amiga funs

the time of the most popular Amiga forum on the internet is over
I'm just divorced and my ex-wife is getting all my financial resources
so I can't maintain our beloved EAB site anymore
it is time to forget the amiga and dedicate to other most interesting stuff like fishing,climbing mountains or playing games on the consoles
on the other way I'm partially broken know I'm selling all my Amiga stuff 2 A4000 2x A1200 CDTV and lot of originals Amiga games in boxes
anyone interested write me at 464 Kalamath street Denver Colorado 80204 (303) 825-4144

see ya

RCK

[Foul]

yes guys EAB is gone forever
here is the last message that RCK posted on youtube before EAB cessation

:cry:

[buzz]

laserback is trolling (or a poor attempt at humour).

abime.net and RCK are based in france.

[Xanxi]

yes guys EAB is gone forever
here is the last message that RCK posted on youtube before EAB cessation

Still 1st of April???