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Daniel A. Norton (danorton@albany.net) wrote:

: >How good is their Usenet newsserver?

: They have had some problems in the past.  A few months ago, they seemed
: to have stopped all of the problems and things are working great now.

We used FreeBSD, Solaris running ODS is much more stable.  We are happy
with the results.  News was the pain in my side. (behind head techie)  Now
I do security checks ever so often.

: >Do you ever seem to miss articles from a thread?

: Very rarely, and I attribute that to general Usenet problems, not with
: AlbanyNet.

I'd prefer more space.  We have 10G in the machine now, with plans for
more.  I spent my budget on disk drives this month on 12G for the RAID
server.  Next month :)

Holding times vary from 2-4 days.  I'm going to increase that to a week.

News traffic is 1.5G/day over our 4 newsfeeds.

: understanding of what it takes to provide Internet Service.  Global2000
: seems to have a better idea of how to market such a service, but seem to
: have tremendous difficulty when it comes to the technical issues of
: understanding and implementing it.

We could market more :)  The excellent word-of-mouth we have has caused us
to grow at a astounding rate.  More agressive advertising would grow us
faster than we can bring in new hires in to support them.  Qualified,
quality people are hard to find. (and budget :)

(office manager is the latest job up for grabs, if anyone is interested,
see Richard Louis (ricker@albany.net) :)

- Matt

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