On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 11:42 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: > On Aug 14, 2011, at 11:39 AM, drew wrote: > > > On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 11:18 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: > >> On Aug 14, 2011, at 11:06 AM, drew wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 13:37 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > >>>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:06 PM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > > <big snip> > > > >>> > >>> Just hit the templates site and it's back, I would rather we ask the > >>> current admin about what, if any, maintenance is needing done on the > >>> site, and then we should offer, if it would help, to try and find some > >>> volunteer help to get that done, asap. > >> > >> Here is what an OSUOSL admin said in July when this happened last: > >> > >>> Looks like varnish died on the machine and I just kicked it. The site(s) > >>> should be back online now. > >>> > >>> The sites have been in an unstable state for quite a while mostly > >>> because neither we (OSL) nor Sun/Oracle had time to fix the performance > >>> issues both of the sites entails. Couple that with the fact that the > >>> machines they power those sites are very underpower considering the load > >>> they take. It's gotten so bad that we've turned off notifications > >>> because they just go off all the time. > >>> > >>> What really needs to happen is to have the sites completely > >>> re-architected from the ground up with scaling in mind. At least one of > >>> the sites is a stock Drupal 5.0 with a very hacked core. I know some > >>> Sun/Oracle engineers had been working on fixing that into a Drupal 6 > >>> module but I'm not sure where that left off. > >>> > >>> Anyways, If you would like some more help with how these sites can be > >>> fixed moving forward, please let me know. But we are strectched thin for > >>> resources. > >>> > >>> Thanks- > >> > >> The offer is there. I'll give anyone the admin's email and off the list if > >> you want to contact him. > >> > > Howdy Dave > > > > Well I'll not be much technical help with Drupal, however I can start by > > posting an email to the Apache infra ML and see if maybe there is > > someone skilled in the art willing to work with our current admin and > > the osu admin. I'll do that in a little bit here, if no one minds. > > Ideally someone here on the ML would be a Drupal guru.
I'll send this one then - and if needed the other after a day or so..;-) //drew
