On Sunday 06 April 2003 05:00 am, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
aparently, the wikipedia server is down. This hasn't been reported on the list, although this might have been because the email server is down too.
You might be surprised to know that the Wikipedia encyclopedia and the Wikipedia mail server are both on the same box.
Could all the mailing lists work just fine on a separate cheapo AMD K6-II 500 MHZ Linux box with two 4 gig hard drives, 256MB of SDRAM and a couple network cards? If so, I hereby donate such a dinosaur to serve as a mail server (of course I'll have to test these components to see if they still work so the specs may change - somebody else will have to configure the mail server part though).
Not being able to talk to each other as a group during a crash like this isn't exactly an optimal way to run a project the size of Wiki(p/m)edia.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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Halloechen!
Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com writes:
On Sunday 06 April 2003 05:00 am, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
aparently, the wikipedia server is down. This hasn't been reported on the list, although this might have been because the email server is down too.
You might be surprised to know that the Wikipedia encyclopedia and the Wikipedia mail server are both on the same box.
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Not being able to talk to each other as a group during a crash like this isn't exactly an optimal way to run a project the size of Wiki(p/m)edia.
In this context I have a question: I have very often problems with the connection speed to Wikipedia, especially the time when the first bytes flow after a page request. Is this a problem on my side or is the Wikipedia server sometimes just swamped?
Tschoe, Torsten.
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 08:27, Torsten Bronger wrote:
In this context I have a question: I have very often problems with the connection speed to Wikipedia, especially the time when the first bytes flow after a page request. Is this a problem on my side or is the Wikipedia server sometimes just swamped?
Actual data transfer should be very fast (try downloading the database dumps! :) but the initial connection may be slow, especially on the wiki itself. The wiki has to grab the page data from the database, render it into HTML, and only then can send you a web page, so there's an initial delay, which can be uncomfortably long if the db is highly loaded.
Sometimes the output buffering is such that it will send the very beginning of the page in one chunk, and then the rest of the page shortly thereafter; this could also result in seemingly slow transfer speeds.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 07:02, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Could all the mailing lists work just fine on a separate cheapo AMD K6-II 500 MHZ Linux box with two 4 gig hard drives, 256MB of SDRAM and a couple network cards? If so, I hereby donate such a dinosaur to serve as a mail server
Yes, that would be more than enough to host the mail (and perhaps the backup dumps?). Best talk to Jimbo and Jason about transporting and setting up hardware.
As Lee has suggested, it might also be good to have some stuff at a separate provider in case the hosting is knocked out altogether.
Not being able to talk to each other as a group during a crash like this isn't exactly an optimal way to run a project the size of Wiki(p/m)edia.
What, you didn't enjoy your nice relaxing 22-hour break from routine? :)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
Not being able to talk to each other as a group during a crash like this isn't exactly an optimal way to run a project the size of Wiki(p/m)edia.
What, you didn't enjoy your nice relaxing 22-hour break from routine? :)
The number of times that I checked to see if it was back on is cause for me to worry about myself, :-[
Ec
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