RonS - 10:37 pm on Oct 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

Thanks Windharp.

How can they possibly rely on a single server as their main data store and not have a backup or a plan for a failover of any sort? How can they not have the "public server" cluster able to continue to serve up the directory during the time the "main server" is down?

How do you know this, are you privvy to inside info? Is the info on this downtime being published anywhere other than this thread? Is the DMOZ's architecture publicly available?

I'm really just curious, but an acquaintance of mine from another webmaster's forum (foolishly?) relies on the DMOZ for a substantial portion of his website and traffic.

Thanks.