Eric's Beijing Diary

It looks like I am finally getting things straightened out with our server here at the Software College. I am referring to the web server that hosts my student web site (http://soft.buaa.edu.cn/oracle/index.html). My weblog is hosted on Blogspot, so ordinarily it would not be affected, except for the fact that I do throw a few jpegs up on my web space once in awhile, and the links from here are going to be dead if the server is messed up.

The first thing they did was to move a bunch websites to a different server. Problem is that when they did that, they also moved the DNS mapping. Not a big problem ordinarily, since I mainly use my website in the classroom. The problem comes because students in the courses I have been teaching around China cannot get to my website, because they don't know the IP address, and all the links I have created to my website were suddenly invalid.

Well, they kept having trouble with the server, so they finally moved my website with the others, so now I am back in business, but that could change, because they are buying a new server, so the url could change again. I guess I should just break down and lease some commercial web space. I have heard that it is pretty cheap in China. But if you teach in a university, it's pretty easy to get a little free web space, especially if you are on good terms with the IT folks. We will see if this situation stabilizes soon. I am getting weary of all the changes.