On 18 February 2014 22:11, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
rationalwiki.org is getting hammered again. It looks
like MySQL is the
busiest portion - seriously just doing a lot of work.
Update: so we're finally taking action on this. We're just putting up
a new 4GB VM for Apache, we'll serve the main site from that which
should free up a ton o' RAM for MySQL on the increasingly loaded 8GB
main box. (We'll leave minor sites over there today, move them at our
leisure.) We have a bit of cash on hand (we have no paid staff) so can
put up a few extra boxes as needed. Thankfully, horizontal scaling is
PHP's strength. I have reminded Trent of the high quality
recommendations for other things to do to be found in this thread ...
(We just got sued by an aggrieved creationist. Thankfully WMF has
already set precedent for sec 230 applying, so we're not at all
worried about that. What we *are* worried about is well-wishers
knocking the server over again ... INCOMING!!!)
- d.