i'm sorry to everyone, i started a bit of a heated debate. i didn't mean to imply that the gentoo sites hosting is less than adequate. I think the gentoo sites do a good job. I couldn't bring up the site for like 3 seconds today, and wouldn't you know it, I mentioned it on the mailing lists, and it wasn't really down at all. my packets probably got lost somewhere.
I recognize that the forums went down, sure, but like you all said that's not common. The forums are actually quite reliable. gentoo.org as a whole has very little interruption. sometimes there are little things, eg broken links, but rarely anything big. gentoo-wiki is seperate, this much I concede. i merely meant that the valuable documentation on the wiki disappearing for days at a time kind of pulls the rug out of anyone heavily using it for documentation. and I wish we, as the larger gentoo community, did something about it. so in conclusion, sorry for the flames I sparked, and thanks to the gentoo web team for doing a pretty good job overall with all their stuff, even the forums (although I might mention in ending that the unanswered search still takes quite a long time, but it _does_ work).
