On 07/06/09 14:22, Jonathan Clarke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As you may have noticed, the website has been very slow/down quite a lot
> over the past few days. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, and am trying
> to restablish a decent situation...
>
> The main cause for this is a few bots agressively indexing the site,
> including very costly pages to display in Redmine. As a temporary
> mesure, repository browsing for unauthenticated users has been desactived.
>
> The repository is still accessible via SVN (see
> http://lsc-project.org/wiki/download) and for authenticated users.
> Creating an account takes seconds, just click on "Register" at the top
> right of http://tools.lsc-project.org/.
>
> I will let you know when a better solution has been found...

OK, I've restablished the anonymous access.

For those interested, Redmine was behaving veeery slowly with lots of 
bots hitting it. I did a few optimizations, in particular :
- Redmine plugin to send 403 to bots on some parts of the site
- General mod_rails optimizations

The server now seems to be running fluidly again! \o/

Jon

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