Tim Mann Jul 8 1993, 12:18 pm show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess From: m...@src.dec.com (Tim Mann) - Find messages by this author Date: 8 Jul 1993 19:11:32 GMT Local: Thurs, Jul 8 1993 12:11 pm Subject: North American ICS needs new home Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse Can anyone help? The North American Internet Chess Server (currently on cirrus.gp.cs.cmu.edu) is looking for a new home. The European ICS (on bentley.daimi.aau.dk) will be continuing, but network connectivity and latency from North America to Europe often leaves something to be desired, so a replacement site for the North American server would be welcome. Here is the information from the ICS message of the day. Send your responses to Daniel Sleator , NOT TO ME. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------- The facilities staff has requested that this server be permanently removed from cirrus on July 9, 1993. If you are willing to host the server even temporarily, please let me [Daniel Sleator] know immediately. If no suitable host is found by July 9, there will be no chess server in North America. If this happens, an effort will be made to transfer the player accounts to bentley. Do "help newhost" for more information. [help newhost:] The ICS has been at CMU for about a year now. It's time for somebody else to host this service. I would like to continue to be the maintainer of the code. (To make sure it remains reliable, and well designed). I would therefore need an account on the new machine. The load generated by the server is roughly the following: CPU: negligible Disk space: ~15 MB Net Traffic: ~100 MB per day. The server code is fairly portable -- should run on most unixes. In order to make it convenient to maintain the code, the machine should be fairly fast and run gnu-emacs. The host should also have good connections to the network. Do "ping cirrus.gp.cs.cmu.edu" to find out good your connection is. It would be best if the ping time was in the 30 ms range -- but lets not be too picky. Please contact me soon if you're interested in hosting the ICS for some period of time. Thanks. Darooha -- a.k.a. Daniel Sleator -------------------------------------------------------------------