[Pdweb] pure-data.info down

[Johannes M Zmoelnig]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> 
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> There are numerous ways you can do mulitple logins without affecting  
> normal users of the website.  For example, you can achieve the same  
> thing by running different browsers, and then it doesn't impact the  
> website users at all.  With IE, Mozilla, Firefox, Galeon, Konquerer,  
> Opera, Safari, Camino, etc. you should have plenty of simultaneous  logins.
> 
> Another option would be to make two separate <VirtualHost> entries in  
> httpd.conf.  One for the normal domain names (puredata.org,  
> pure-data.info, etc) which canonizes the name to puredata.org, and the  
> other for the extra test domains which does not canonize the domain  
> name.  Then you can make as many test domains as you want, pd1.iem.at,  
> pd2.iem.at, etc. etc. and the normal users of the website will be  
> unaffected.

i mean, sorry, what is the whole point of it ?

the only thing that would change is to have one canonical name 
"puredata.org" instead of several ones (we are talking about 2 or 3 not 
10 or 20)
why is this so important to you ? what makes live easier (except for 
me!) if we have only 1 name ?

personally i think .info domains are clumsy and thus i prefer .org
but: puredata.org is owned my someone whom i do not know at all! just 
because he is kind and gives it to us for free does not mean this will 
stay so.
what if the domain-registration (by some unlucky events) ends again ?
(true, most people use puredata.org now (just a wild guess) and they 
will have the same problems then)

please clarify the need to have one and only one domain-name

mfg.a.sdr
IOhannes