Whatever happened to usssp.org? scouting service proj site?

[LauraT7]

whatever happened to usscouting .org?

 

I know I haven't been around for awhile, but I tried to find it again for some links to scouting with a palm pilot / pocket pc that I knew they had, and I can't find it. Did it go down? loose their servers? where did it go?

 

help!

 

Laura

[berkshirescouter]

They had a massive hardware failure.

 

Some parts are up at different addresses but I am at work and don't have them.

 

The last I heard, it will be several weeks before it is back up.

[hops_scout]

Laura, how's it been?

 

I'm told the the USSCOUTING.org and all of its sites are currently down because their servers crashed. It has taken them time to replace them because of the fact that they are VERY expensive.

 

They hope to back soon, but they've been down for a few weeks now.

 

 

[pack561]

I was wondering and asking around our area, I feared they lost funding and were closed down. USSSP and Cumbmaster.org were my primary resource. I recheck to see if they are back almost daily. I am very sorry to here they had a massive failure though.

[crumbaughs]

I have spoken with the US Scouting Project guys, they are hoping to have the sites back up next weekend. We are all looking forward to seeing an old friend again.

 

Steve

[ps56k]

An open message and a plea for additional support. We ask of you to please share this message with other electronic Scouting groups you are a part of.

 

We at the U.S. Scouting Service Project are committed to supporting Scouting through the Internet. We thank those Scouters and others who

have come forth in the past and have supported our voluntary efforts -- those efforts, which in turn, has been of a service to you, your units, your district/local Council and to the national Scouting movement in the United States.

 

Sadly, we are now off line due to the failure of our server. It was no longer able to handle the high volume of visits to our site that amounted to approximately 7 million page hits a month. We may be down for now, but we are not willing to submit to defeat or wallow in despair. We will be back. While we are confident we will resume operations, it may be awhile before we return to the web. We need to buy a new server and get it set up. And we need your help. But first, we have a bit of a report for you:

 

We recognized that our old two-processor server with a little less than a one-megabyte of memory was in trouble a year ago and started seeking

donations from Scouters. The response was fantastic and to date we have had just over $2,500 in donations. We were close to raising enough money

to buy a new server and still be able to support Scouting through grants for Eagle Scholarships and West Fellowships like the one presented to

the owner of the Scouts-L listserv. However, time ran out before the money was there and our cranky old server finally presented its last blue screen of death.

 

You might think that $2,500 is enough to do the trick because you can by a fine home computer for that much and we wish that was true. Unlike

your home computer that only supports one user at a time, a web server has to support hundreds of people at one time. In order to have a web

site that isn't deadly slow or unavailable during peak usage periods, we need a server class computer that can handle the load. We have purchased a modestly priced low-end web server that cost us about $4,000. We now have just about enough money to do that, but not enough to purchase the server, and software needed to operate it, and still provide other

support to Scouting. To be able to continue we need more donations to help us through this tight spot.

 

Donations are accepted via PayPal by using the following email account address:

 

donate2usscouts.org@verizon.net

 

We apologize for any inconvenience you may experience while we are down and will make every effort to get our sites back up for you as soon as

we can. We thank you for your support, your visits, and for the work you do as a front line Scouter making a difference for the youth of this

great nation.

 

Q&A send to: paul.s.wolf@alum.wpi.edu

 

Gary Hendra, President, U.S. Scouting Service Project, Inc.

 

Board members: Mike Bowman, Paul Wolf, Kyna Hendra, Bill Nelson, Dave

Tracewell, Mike Walton, Ed Henderson, Lloyd Dalton

 

CC'd from the - rec.scouting.usa - newsgroup

 

 

[ps56k]

The following was posted to Scouts-L, and I feel it appropriate to cross

post it here, too, as I'm sure many of the names are familiar to readers

of this forum. I also want to add my thanks to those expressed by Gary.

 

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Hello Scouters, friends and supporters of the US Scouting Service

Project. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I convey our heartfelt

thanks to the people listed below, who have donated to USSSP via our

PayPal account. You have made a huge contribution to our ability to

get a server back on the air -- we are actively working on it, and we

will reappear as soon as possible. It is a large and time consuming

effort to get a complex system, serving many websites and other

services, fully configured, tested and up on the internet. Please be

patient.

 

It is not too late to make a donation, small or large, to help

continue our programs and activities. Please do not divert any funds

you would route to Friends of Scouting or your unit, to donate to

USSSP. Use the following address at PayPal to make a donation --

donate2usscouts.org@verizon.net. What we do, we do for the youth and

youth group programs throughout the world.

 

Again, our sincere thanks for your support.

 

Yours in Scouting,

Gary Hendra, President,

US Scouting Service Project, Inc.

 

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Yours in Scouting,

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[seed]

Is it OK to copy the post about needing donations for usscouting.org, and send it to a few friends?

 

Jean