Caching and Nginx are your first friends, every time. Tom
On 14 April 2013 14:38, Manuel Schneider <[email protected]>wrote: > Am 14.04.2013 14:47, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo): > > Butch Bustria, 14/04/2013 14:21: > >> The registration website crashed in time for the last day of "Early Bird > >> Registration" > > > > Yes, the centralnotice yesterday killed the site and was took down. > > I am really disappointed by this. > It should be obvious to everyone that a single server cannot cope with a > centralnotice on Wikimedia projects, served by 300+ servers. > > I have this discussions almost every month. Once WMIN is abusing the > server, another time WLM, this time Wikimania. Each and every time > nobody even thought a second to at least notify the sponsor of the > server before doing something like this. > > And I say this again and again every time, to no avail. > > The problem can be avoided so easily - using a static HTML landing page > (even PHP should work, just avoid any database transactions on the > landing page) and talk before you do something. I was away for a few > days (Jury meeting in London, weekend) and did not use a computer for > two days, hence I could not see or react to anything. If I knew, I > would've giving some hints beforehand and made sure I am monitoring the > situation closely during that time. > > /Manuel > -- > Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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