[CCF] Fw: [na-user] New Datom Web Site Coming This Week

[Juha Rantanen]

Moro

Ei ole näköjään CCF:n sivu ainut joka olisi tarvinnut MS FrontPage
Extentions:n. Luulisi W4AN:aa kiinnostavan lisätä se serverilleen kun rupeaa
käyttäjät häviämään.

Juha OH6XX
----- Original Message -----
From: "k8cc" <k8cc@mediaone.net>
To: <na-user@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 5:20 AM
Subject: [na-user] New Datom Web Site Coming This Week


>
> Back in February 2001, during the week before ARRL DX CW, the
> contesting.com server which hosted the DATOM Engineering web site crashed
> hard.  Besides being a horrible time to happen with the contest around the
> corner, your's truly was in the Caribbean at WP2Z and out of touch.
Arrgghh!
>
> In subsequent weeks, the crew at the Akorn ISP got the servers up and
> running again.  Eventually the DATOM Engineering site appeared again, but
> nobody could access the download site.  DATOM's webmaster Tom, WB8VMN
> looked into this, contacted Akorn, and determined what was missing was
> something called "MS FrontPage Extentions", which provided the services
> required to run many of the features of the site, such as the secured
> download page.  Without these services, Tom could not even get into the
> site itself to post a "Sorry, this site is busted - please stand by"
> message on the home page.
>
> To make a long story short, the DATOM Web Site had been hosted for free
> courtesy of Bill, W4AN founder of Akorn.  Because of our "free" status, we
> were hosted on an older server that receives less support than the newer
> servers hosting paying clients.  Week after week we waited patiently for
> the FrontPage Extentions to be installed so that we could get the site
back
> in business.  Finally, the word came down that due to factors beyond
> Akorn's control, they could not promise when our server would be back 100%
> and they recommended that we migrate to their "commercial" server where
the
> support would be guaranteed.
>
> In early May, plans to do just that were put into motion.  Because we
> switched servers we had to go get our own URL.  Unfortunately, datom.com
is
> taken by some outfit in W6 with an "under construction" web site last
> updated in February 1999!  So, our new URL will be
> http://www.datomonline.com (that's DATOM Online run together).  It takes
> some time for a new domain name to work its way through the DNS servers,
> but by now you should be able to simply log into the site by name.



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