Hello Everyone!
I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but mrbill passed in August of 2019 after a long fight with cancer. Before his passing, he entrusted me (firestorm_v1) with his electronic accounts for sunhelp.org, sunmanagers.org, his domain registrar, and many other domains along with the physical server hardware that he was hosting them on. I was fortunate to have access to a colocation facility where the server has continued to run pretty much hands-off for almost the last two years. I have already migrated the domains to my registrar account and renewed them for several more years (and will continue to do so).

Unfortunately, life (read: COVID) has been way too busy for me to consider doing anything with the server outside of simply moving it to the colocation facility and ensuring that it remains online. Fortunately, the server has otherwise remained functional and operational and according to the most recent checks of the archives, is still running the mailing lists as if nothing had happened.

Recently, there was an issue with the site that caused the pages not to render properly (although the mailinglists continued to operate) and a deep dive into the system revealed multiple issues that indicated that the underlying software is simply too old to keep running. Fortunately, I just so happen to have a server that’s more than capable of hosting sunhelp, sunmanagers and many other domains that Bill was operating.

It is my intent to move the content, the mailing lists, and the domain over to the new server sometime within the next couple of months. It is also my intent to keep this site and the mailing lists operating as it has been since the site was originally provisioned. I’m not going to change the site in any way, shape, or form, except for those necessary changes to allow me to keep the site up to date (security updates, application updates, etc..). Y’all trusted mrbill to keep the site and lists online, and I’m hoping that y’all can trust me to do the same. I’ll post updates to the site as progress is made, but to avoid bombarding users with non-update updates, I’ll limit posts to the site to once in a seven day period and only if there are significant updates.

Thank you for your patience as we move forward.

FIRESTORM_v1