Re: [Jmol-users] Frequent outages of jmol.org

[Mark P. <pe...@so...>]

Hi Eric,

Can you setup your own small server for firstglance.jmol.org and then you
can have it redirect wherever you like?  Just have the jmol.org owner setup
the DNS record.

Thanks,
Mark

On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM m0lviz--- via Jmol-users <
jmo...@li...> wrote:

> Dear Mark,
>
> To expand on what Angel said, firstglance.jmol.org has been in use since
> 2005 through several changes of physical servers. The idea is that users
> can count on firstglance.jmol.org rather than having to use physical
> server URLs (currently proteopedia.org) that may need to change at any
> time.
>
> -Eric
>
> On Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:32:41 AM EDT, Angel Herraez <
> ang...@ua...> wrote:
>
>
> Mark,
>
> jmol.org is a registered domain that redirects to several hostings:
>
> www.jmol.org ==> the Jmol project wesbite at SourceForge
> wiki.jmol.org ==> the hosting for the wiki (currently at AWS courtesy of
> Jaime Prilusky at the Weizman Insititute
> firstglance.jmol.org ==> another hosting for FirstGlance-in-Jmol
> (currently hosted at (https://proteopedia.org/wiki/fgij/)
>
> Proteopedia.org (curently at an AWS server and hopefully moved soon)  is
> totally independent of Jmol.org
>
>  Dr. Angel Herráez
>  Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
>  Dept. of Systems Biology, University of Alcalá
>  E-28805 Alcalá de Henares  (Madrid), Spain
>
> ------------------------------
> *De:* Mark Perri <pe...@so...>
> *Enviado:* martes, 27 de mayo de 2025 3:14
> *Para:* m0...@ya... <m0...@ya...>;
> jmo...@li... <jmo...@li...>
> *Cc:* Michael Howard <mi...@ho...>; Michael Howard <mi...@jm...
> >
> *Asunto:* Re: [Jmol-users] Frequent outages of jmol.org
>
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> Hi Eric,
>
> What is hosted on jmol.org?  It looks like it's just a redirect to
> protopedia.org.  Can't you just use protopedia.org instead?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM m0lviz--- via Jmol-users <
> jmo...@li...> wrote:
>
> Dear Miguel and Bob,
>
> Again, I'd like to request that you change the company that manages the
> domain jmol.org because of frequent outages. While an hour or two outage
> at random times may not be too inconvenient for jmol.org users, it is a
> big problem for educators who schedule use in lecture or lab classes for *firstglance.jmol.org
> <http://firstglance.jmol.org/>*. During the academic semesters,
> FirstGlance is used about 300 times/day (or many fold more if I believe the
> recent traffic from China). Most domains cost $12/year at AWS Amazon Web
> Services, and are extremely reliable.
> This is what my inbox looks like using site24x7.com monitoring:
> [image: Inline image]
>
> Thanks, -Eric
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