Re: Inadequate hosting for www.postgresql.org?

From: Alexey Borzov <borz_off(at)cs(dot)msu(dot)su>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Inadequate hosting for www.postgresql.org?
Date: 2004-11-02 13:05:26
Message-ID: 41878616.70705@cs.msu.su
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Hi,

Dave Page wrote:
>>Looking into this stuff offlist highlighted the following obvious
>>problem: postgresql.org (as well as wwwdevel) runs on a
>>shared server that has *lots* of other tasks that can
>>negatively affect performance.
>>It is difficult to even point finger at one particular task
>>that does this.
>>
>>So the solution (as was also pointed out in a private mail to
>>me) is to get a dedicated server for running the "master" website.
>
>
> A /dedicated/ server is *way* over the top as I pointed out in my
> previous private message to you. The current site regens all 7000+ pages
> in a few minutes for example. I agree though that we could use a little
> more horsepower though - I'll see if I can setup something on one of my
> boxes here over the next few days.

"Dedicated" does not necessarily mean "dedicated to www only", but
"dedicated to PostgreSQL project". Current infrastructure with shared
servers was already found inadequate to run search, archives, etc.

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