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    From Ivo Gandolfo@usenet@bofh.team to alt.free.newsservers,news.software.nntp on Sat Aug 15 13:56:03 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.free.newsservers

    Hello everyone,

    Last night (03:47 UTC 15/08/2026) one of the pool's backend servers
    suffered a catastrophic disk failure, sending the entire server into
    recovery mode. The RAID and ZFS pool ensured that no history was lost,
    but after replacing the damaged disks, both the RAID and ZFS storage are
    now rebuilding.

    Everything should be completed around 23:30 UTC 15/08, and the server
    will be relinked as available in the pool when the system reports that
    all checks have passed successfully.
    Users may experience slow connections or slower delivery of articles or
    worse, unable to grep groups/articles. If anyone notices slowdowns or
    similar issues please be patient, everything will be resolved within a
    few hours (the frontend is currently working with only two datacenters
    instead of three, without load balancing).


    Sincerely
    --
    Ivo Gandolfo
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  • From doctor@doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) to alt.free.newsservers,news.software.nntp on Sat Aug 15 15:21:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.free.newsservers

    In article <115pk4j$3p7$1@paganini.bofh.team>,
    Ivo Gandolfo <usenet@bofh.team> wrote:
    Hello everyone,

    Last night (03:47 UTC 15/08/2026) one of the pool's backend servers
    suffered a catastrophic disk failure, sending the entire server into >recovery mode. The RAID and ZFS pool ensured that no history was lost,
    but after replacing the damaged disks, both the RAID and ZFS storage are
    now rebuilding.

    Everything should be completed around 23:30 UTC 15/08, and the server
    will be relinked as available in the pool when the system reports that
    all checks have passed successfully.
    Users may experience slow connections or slower delivery of articles or >worse, unable to grep groups/articles. If anyone notices slowdowns or >similar issues please be patient, everything will be resolved within a
    few hours (the frontend is currently working with only two datacenters >instead of three, without load balancing).


    Sincerely

    Got you .

    I have yet to make a replacement order on my servers.


    --
    Ivo Gandolfo
    --
    Member - Liberal International This is doctor@nk.ca Ici doctor@nk.ca
    Yahweh, King & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism ; 31 years in the ISP business!
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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Q8OzaWzDrW4=?= =?UTF-8?B?IE5pb2Nsw6Fzw61u?= =?UTF-8?B?IEdsb3N0w6lpcg==?=@thanks-to@Taf.com to alt.free.newsservers,news.software.nntp on Sat Aug 15 16:52:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.free.newsservers

    Ciao Ivo Gandolfo!

    Would you like me to pay for a new hard disk or anything? I really
    appreciate the BOFH NNTP service!
    (S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)
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  • From Truth in Writing@OnlyTruthMatters@is.invalid to alt.free.newsservers,news.software.nntp on Sat Aug 15 18:42:44 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.free.newsservers

    As of Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:56:03 +0200, Ivo Gandolfo wrote:
    Everything should be completed around 23:30 UTC 15/08,

    Thank you for letting us all know.
    We appreciate your largesse and kindness.

    There are only two free no-registration servers that I am aware of.
    Yours is half of them.

    Thank you for caring about privacy.
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