Hello, Am Samstag, 13. Mai 2006 01:33 schrieb Peter Flodin:
Victim of our own success.
Yes. That's the most pleasant problem you can imagine ;) However, openSUSE isn't the first that had this problem. Someone from a big german freemail provider once told me that several companies advertising in their newsletter called them saying "we are DoS'ed", got the reply "no DoS, traffic!". Then the companies _begged_ not to send out more newsletters ;-) BTW: A variant of DoS-ing a website is DoS-ing a call center - one company managed to have this two times, seems they hadn't learned from the first newsletter sent out... BTW2: They already give out "surviving extremely high traffic" guides in advance, but sometimes it doesn't help.
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.
Nobody will object, I guess ;-) My proposal: Run a wget -r over the whole wiki (excluding index.php) daily. In case of problems, you can switch to that copy. This clearly reduces the load on the server (static files vs. "PHP + database + iChains") while still serve all information. The only thing not working will be editing of pages, page history and alike - but that hits only a low percentage of visitors. Sounds much better than having a single "we are offline" page, doesn't it?
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,
Yes, it would really be nice if someone can them make available. Regards, Christian Boltz -- If something is red you should always worry. That's way it is red. [Thorsten Kukuk]