ANNOUNCE: network connection will be changing

[Derek Atkins]

linas at linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:

> Hi,
>                                                                                 
> The internet connection on which www.gnucash.org and the
> gnucash.org mail servers sit will be upgraded sometime after 
> mid-week of July 23. The new line will have more bandwidth, 
> which should speed transfers.  Note that the IP address of the 
> website will be changing.  This change should be transparent 
> to everyone; however, if you have trouble accessing this site 
> after that date, you may want to try to flush your domain name 
> cache.

Ahh, new IP Addresses..  lovely...

> Note that the CVS servers will also be affected. 

Thanks for the warning.  Is there is any chance you could send out
another email before the work begins and then another when the work is
completed?  I realize you may not be able to do this, but "sometime
after mid-week July 23rd" doesn't really give an idea of when I wont
be able to access CVS or when email will be down.. ;)

> (The new line will be a 768Kbit/sec DSL line, the current 
> line is a 512K line.  Combined trafic on this net is about 
> 45 Gigabytes/month, a little less than 1/3 of the total 
> theoretical bandwidth of the old line, and less than 1/5 of 
> the new line.  This should make downloads and web access 
> feel zippier.)

Cool :)

> (Note that not all of the above traffic is downloads; 
> although maybe 1/2 is.  The typical size of a gnucash package
> is 4MBytes, so the above implies that there are about 5,000
> downloads a month.  Just FYI!)

Do these numbers take into account CVS access?

> --linas

-derek

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