You may have noticed that there have been a few occasions over the past week in which our new Humanist Chaplaincy (http://hcs.harvard.edu/humanist) has been down/unavailable. In fact, it is down as I write this and will be unavailable until sometime Monday morning, September 25. This isn’t our site’s fault (I promise) but rather is due to the fact that our server, Harvard Computer Services (HCS), keeps crashing. Unfortunately we had to go with HCS, a student run group, for the time-being because it is free and the Humanist Chaplaincy’s budget is still so small. We’re working on fundraising, but we need your help to avoid such problems in the future!
In the meantime, here is a statement from Matt Fasman, a student at Harvard HCS, written Sunday morning:
“Yes, it is down. You certainly have a right to be frustrated by the instability,
especially as it occurs over such long periods of time and with such frequency. We are planning to scrap that machine this week and install a new one which will be more reliable. As for getting this one back online, we only have M-F, 9-5 access to the machines, so that won’t be an option until tomorrow morning. I’m really sorry about this, and we are going to fix it as soon as we can, but that will not be for another 20 hours.”
Of course, the above was written on Sunday and as of Wednesday we now know that those 20 hours were not at all sufficient. The site has been down most of the week! Here are some more comments from HCS about this latest “development:”
Greg,
Believe me when i tell you that we deserver the anger. I’m as upset
about this as any ones is. The problem is that our hardware is outdated
and being overused. We’re moving to new, much more powerful hardware
and the end of the week. Until then, access to hcs websites will be
intermittent as the machine is unstable.I’m very sorry for the trouble and we’re working as qucikly as possible
to remedy the problem,Grant Dasher
HCS Systems
We can’t wait to serve you, however, and aren’t willing to risk this happening again. So help us with your vote: do you prefer www.harvardhumanist.org or www.humanistchaplaincy.org as our new URL? Or something else? Leave a comment with your opinion!
And for the time being, don’t forget you can still access all of our upcoming events here, and if you’re looking for more information about Humanism right away, check back to my June 2006 post on “summer reading.”
http://www.harvardhumanist.org…chaplaincy is too hard to spell, keep the website name phonetic
http://www.harvardhumanist.org
much catchier, more informative, less noisy
Ditto. http://www.harvardhumanist.org
I like http://www.harvardhumanist.org as well; it’s both as specific and expansive as it needs to be.
I agree with the above comments
I also prefer harvardhumanist.org because it uses the school’s name; humanistchamplaincy.org could be any affiliated with any school.
Not to just copy everyone else but I do like http://www.harvardhumanist.org. Perhaps it should be http://www.harvardhumanists.org or http://www.harvardhumanism.org, though they have problems of their own.
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a monthly newsletter/magazine called “The Harvard Humanist”? Willful speculation…
Definitely http://www.harvardhumanist.org . I feel like some people are inept at spelling “chaplaincy” – sometimes I catch myself spelling it out in my head. Also, you can never go wrong with alliteration – NEVER.
I prefer harvarhumanist.org. This URL tells the user the location of our group and aditionally denotes it as a primarily university-aged group.Humanistchaplency.org is too genertal, it can be anywhere and any age.
http://www.harvardhumanist.org all the way!