[Foundation-l] Concern with performance issues

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Rich Holton <rich_holton at yahoo.com> wrote:
> We cannot allow en.wikipedia (and perhaps others) to languish for days
> with horrible response times and frequent, ugly user errors. We must
> quickly determine what we need to do to remedy this situation, and
> quickly act to implement the remedy. 

We have grown to the point where money for hardware really isn't the issue.
Whenever we need money we have been able to raise it. [ASIDE: as of 31 Dec
there was over US$30,000 in the bank and today there is over US$17,000 in
PayPal - not to mention what the German Chapter has.] In early February we have
our next donation drive planned. 

The issue as I see it, is that we are now asking too much of too few volunteer
developers and none of them can be on-site at the colo. Thus I think it is the
time to consider hiring one full time or two of them part time to perform
server maintenance tasks for us that currently are not done in a timely manor
(esp the on-site stuff). Our budget is now so big ($US80,000 last quarter) that
the addition of one or two employees under contract would not be too much of a
burden. Neither would some up-front relocation money. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)


		
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