Still down and Alternatives

Server Status: Up but the link is down.

NQIG Server Notes
At the moment it is important for people to remember that as long as the NQIG server is not connected to the internet, all emails that are sent to accounts @nqig.net will not be delivered.

Because of this I am looking into establishing a secondary server responsible for being a backup when the NQIG site is down. Ed (No, Ed isn't gone) will probably end up on the Wright Water Engineers backbone and will be configured to act as a secondary DNS Server, Mail server (I'll set it up with a lower MX priority and configure it to cache e-mails indefinately untill it can forward them to Motoko.), and will have it do a daily or weekly (depends on the agreement I establish with WWE on transfer limits) backups.

Or...

I'll purchase some bandwidth at a server farm like Icy has done and setup the server there. If I can find one that will allow me to ship them my computer and have them host it on their backbone, I'll ship them Motoko, find another group, ship them Ed, and if it costs less than $40 a month for at lease 1 GB a month of bandwidth each (A number we have only ever exceeded once and it was when we first created the forum) We could easily avoid this problem in the future.

Server Repair Journal Day 2
The magical hardware repair fairy didn't come last night, that means either it was too hard for him to fix, or he didn't feel like doing it. In either case, I've waited long enough. So I tried to call QWest again. Didn't even make it into the hold loop. They're lines where locked down with other calls. My only guess is that either they have WAY too few people on their call staff, or there's something messing everybody up. In any case that means that I am going to continue to have trouble getting through. Since today is Thursday, I've decided to establish a reverse telethon, where I call QWest over and over until either I get through or pass out from exaustion. Since I know I can pull 24 hours easy, I figure I won't crash until sometime around 11:00 AM tommorow. If I havn't gotten through by then, I'm just gonna call it quits and give up. Well, by give up I mean goto bed and try again when I wake up.