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Drupal Needs a New Home

Posted by timothy on from the new-slash-home-that-is dept.

reardonsteel writes "All of the Drupal websites were offline for about two days because of a server meltdown at the organization's hosting provider. The main Drupal website is back up with a single temporary page and they've announced a fund-raising drive to raise US$3000 for a new server to be hosted at the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University's server farm. Drupal is the leading open-source (written in PHP) content management system and is used to power tens of thousands of websites, blogs, community sites, etc." At this point, all they need is an actual server, too: the OSL has agreed to provide rack space, bandwidth, power, backup facilities and support.

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  1. Nice by z0ink · · Score: 5, Funny

    So now we'll go ahead and destroy the temporary server too. Good work.

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  2. Oh that's good... by noneloud · · Score: 4, Funny

    They have a server meltdown, so Slashdot gives them another?

    tim, I think you should watch your (real life) Karma...That's not very nice :)

  3. Server meltdown? Oh let's /. them by giaguara · · Score: 2, Funny

    Server meltdown? Oh let's /. them now that they are back online.

  4. Re:well, since i can't get to the link by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Funny

    Think statuesque black transvestite. Really all you need to know.

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  5. Just say no to nukes! by noidentity · · Score: 2, Funny

    All of the Drupal websites were offline for about two days because of a server meltdown at the organization's hosting provider.

    Nucular computers is bad, mm'kay! Don't support it. This is what happens, things melt down and people are left without homes.