Forums intermittently going down?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 07:35:11PM +0000, AlCaponeJr via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 5 October 2018 at 16:11:05 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 11:51:02PM +0000, Vladimir Panteleev via
> > Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> > > Yeah, painfully aware. I've been trying a bunch of different
> > > things all day, and looks like things are back under control now.
> > > I think the metal is reaching its limit, or there's just too much
> > > stuff running on the machine - it continued to be really slow even
> > > 10 minutes after I completely stopped the forum process.
> > 
> > Maybe it's time for the Foundation to fund dedicated hardware for
> > running the forum software?  If we're reaching the limit of the
> > hardware, there's not much else that can be done.
[...]
> Why not use some Cloud Services instead of worrying about hardware?
[...]

Yes, and have it go down when things like the infamous AWS Outage
happens.  Centralization is evil.

(But of course, that still beats the status quo of a dedicated server
that's overloaded and resulting in poor service... so you may have a
point. :-P)


T

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