Stolen quite blatantly from Unk's:

I see that the greenspun home page (www.greenspun.com) carries the following:

I see that the greenspun home page (www.greenspun.com) carries the following:

"17 May 2001 - after most of a day of being out of commission, the greenspun.com free services have moved to a much better connected and more stable home. We anticipate that the recent outages should be a thing of the past, and appreciate your indulgence during this difficult time."

-- David L (bumpkin@dnet.net), May 19, 2001.

-- Anonymous, May 20, 2001

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Going to Philip's site, you also find: " This server exists to verify the utility of ideas promulgated in my book on how to build Web sites and in the magazine on Web publishing that I edit.

The bottom line is that it is tough and expensive to run a reliable RDBMS-backed Web server. So we're doing that here for all of you. Given the way that I've written the code, it really isn't any more expensive for this machine to serve hundreds of Web publishers and their many thousands of users than it would be to run a single db-backed Web site with 500 hits/day. " Links for the book and magazine are at greenspun.com.

-- Anonymous, May 20, 2001