Peter Flodin wrote:
On 5/13/06, houghi
wrote: Any idea when it will be up again? It is not realy good advertisement to have it down with the lauch of a new version. :-(
Also the http://download.opensuse.org/index.html is pretty confusing. I would delete the last two rows or perhaps even the last three rows, or just put up the anouncement there, because it is much clearer.
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1/ Now you don't see any information and what are the RC1_GM torrents? Confusing for a beginner.
It is back up.
http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Popularpages
I think we had over a million pageviews on the front page alone in the last few days. From memory as I looked at stats only a few days ago.
Victim of our own success. I do however think that we need to plan for this properly next time, so that the failure is more graceful, with a planned message and page. It looked a bit like an emergency-my-server-is-on-fire message....even if that was the case :-).
It would be interesting to see the webserver stats, with referrals, my guess a large proportion of the traffic came from here: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/11/1544232 http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/12/0218209 http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Finally_Released_SUSE_10.1_Final
Peter 'Pflodo' Flodin
Interesting. I looked some 30 min. ago and there was emergency page. Good said "victims of own success". -- Regards, Rajko.