drupal.org is so slow

By kc on 9 Nov 2004 at 21:12 UTC

Drupal.org site is so slow for a couple of weeks. Anyone else is experiencing the same or could it be my connection?

Comments

Same problem here, does this

eveltman commented 9 November 2004 at 21:25

Same problem here, does this have anything to do with growing interest for Drupal ?

Also completely dead

mousse-man commented 10 November 2004 at 00:09

About two hours ago, the site was completely dead, with connection_refused messages all over. Seems to me Drupal became a victim of it's own success.

Or possibly mysql which sometimes b0rks in interesting ways.

Server upgrade

sepeck commented 10 November 2004 at 00:26

Server upgrade

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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Slow and vanished Drupal not good

peterkt commented 10 November 2004 at 18:46

Looks like all is resolved with the slow drupal.org, but the last couple days was bad timing for DNS erroring since I just launched our new Drupal-based site and pointed all the higher-ups to check out Drupal.org for more info. No negative feedback yet, but I winced each time I checked drupal.org, knowing that a supervisor was seeing the same and thinking twice about my choice of Drupal...

Any chance we can get a notification about server upgrades in the future, especially if it takes as long as this one seemed to?

Thanks.

P.S. This is a downer of a first post to drupal.org. Overall, I am loving Drupal and couldn't be more pleased with the responsiveness and activity of this community!

I am just another participant

sepeck commented 10 November 2004 at 19:42

I am just another participant, but management generally understands planned hardware migrations. I agree that perhaps a notice should have been posted on the Web site a few days in advance and wish I thought to mention is when it was announced on the email list.

If I remember from a post a few months ago, the database is over 10GB and as mentioned lately, monthly traffic is over 70GB, so it is not a 'small' site. This is not counting the CVS and automated scripts for building packages and other fun stuff. Also a lot of the surge comes from the recent higher visibility as a lot of sites seem to be going over to Drupal (spreadfirefox), several Linux sites, GNome, and KDE sites. As with any Open Source project funding is generally on the active participants, perhaps your management would see their kind way to donating back to the project :)

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
_{Drupal Best Practices Guide}