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    From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 9 07:03:50 2024
    I spent the weekend, with help from Ellen K., moving massfilc.org to new hosting. Previously a fan provided hosting to us and other fannish organizations, but he decided it was time to get out of that hobby. He
    gave us plenty of notice.

    We settled on Panix, which has a decades-long reputation as a
    geek-friendly service provider. Things went about as smoothly as such
    things ever do. Hopefully anyone not paying close attention won't notice
    the difference.

    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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  • From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 30 06:07:26 2024
    On 1/30/24 1:04 AM, Spear Carrier (Spearcarrier) wrote:
    Can you define "geek friendly" because although I know there's so very little hope of escaping godaddy someday, I might be able to at some point.

    Sorry, if this was directed at me, I've forgotten the original context.
    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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  • From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 30 11:46:57 2024
    On 1/30/24 10:31 AM, Spear Carrier (Spearcarrier) wrote:
    On Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 5:07:28 AM UTC-6, Gary McGath wrote:
    On 1/30/24 1:04 AM, Spear Carrier (Spearcarrier) wrote:
    Can you define "geek friendly" because although I know there's so very little hope of escaping godaddy someday, I might be able to at some point.

    McGath had said: > Sorry, if this was directed at me, I've forgotten the original context.

    so now I'm saying:

    You had said, "We settled on Panix, which has a decades-long reputation as a geek-friendly service provider." - and I wanted to know what you meant by that. Geek-friendly as in they like geeks or it's great if you know all of the complicated coding?

    What I meant is that they give you access to shell accounts and other
    tools to have full control over your account. If you want a host where
    you just add content and they take care of everything else, and you
    don't care so much about FTP, .htaccess, and the fine details of HTML, a different service could be better.

    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to adminfox@woksprint.com on Wed Jan 31 00:12:52 2024
    Spear Carrier (Spearcarrier) <adminfox@woksprint.com> wrote:
    You had said, "We settled on Panix, which has a decades-long reputation as = >a
    geek-friendly service provider." - and I wanted to know what you meant by t= >hat. Geek-friendly as in they like geeks or it's great if you know all of t= >he complicated coding?

    With Panix when something is wrong you can pick up the telephone and call
    the support office and say "the /var partition on panix2 is overflowing"
    and they will log in and fix it while you are on the phone because you
    are talking to an actual technical person who not only knows something
    about computers but has been delegated enough power by the organization to
    fix them.

    It's like the way ISPs were back in the early nineties before the internet
    went wrong.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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