There have been intermittent DNS problems for many months, well before what is mentioned above. One of our board members found a way to demonstrate the problem and pushed for a solution. Our remaining team of technical people identified and fixed the problem in short order.
At the heart of disagreements among the team is the board’s desire to “Use commercial services where available and affordable”. This is for the long term survivability and uptime of AllStar systems. For example if there is a DNS failure on AWS many people (not just AllStar users) will be impacted and it will get fixed quickly by Amazon employees. Whereas our servers have to be fixed by AllStar volunteers with limited availability. Also, as mentioned above, people have removed their contributions for various reasons and this has caused huge churn and some outages. The board’s desire is to prevent any one person’s contributions or expertise to adversely impact services.
It’s unfortunate that these disagreements have been made public. But it’s been an open secret for some time now. I suppose this presents an opportunity to discuss opposing points of view. That’s a good thing if the discussion remains civil. If this topic is not of interest the follow icon allows for adjustment of preferences for this topic.