[axxs-sysadmin] PHP 5 on server?

[Cameron Gregg]

Global Trade Watch wrote:
> Hi Cam,
> Thanks for getting back to me about the PHP 5 issue.  At the moment we 
> have a slightly more urgent problem, which is that our website 
> www.corporatewatch.org.au <http://www.corporatewatch.org.au> is down and 
> has been down all morning (just comes up with "too many connections when 
> you try to access it).  This also means we can't access emails from it 
> either. (We've actually been getting this same error on some pages on 
> the site since last week...)
> 
> I was just wondering if you could find out what the problem is, and let 
> us know how soon it might be fixed? - it's obviously very important to 
> us to be able to access the site and emails especially.
> 
> Would be great to get them up again ASAP - please let me know when you know.
> 
> On the PHP 5 issue, that's greeat that yo now have a server running PHP 
> 5 - we have a techie who can set up Mediawiki for us.  So if you could 
> possibly move the site over to the PHP 5 server, that would be great. 
> 


This all comes back to the issue of participation in the Axxs 
collective. These ideas may have changed since Dave originally set you up.

The bottom line is that we are all volunteers, and can't jump when 
somebody elses site is down. I look after several sites. This takes up 
my volunteer time. I can't be responsible for other peoples sites.

You will need a tech person that can help out with server issues and be 
knowledgeable enough to move the site over to new server themselves.

We need all groups taking part in Axxs to take full responsibility for 
their own sites.

Having said that, there may be someone else in the Axxs collective that 
will sponsor you as a tech. I've CC'd this email to the Axxs-sysadmin 
list (which is where people should communitcate, not with me personally).

As for the current situation, we (the current tech people involved) are 
aware the server is down and are working to get it up ASAP.

Cam