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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Website reliabilityWebsite reliability
From: Solomon Peachy via rockbox <rockbox_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2021 10:05:26 -0400 The www site has gone down a lot since the migration to the new host. The fundamental problem is that our ancient, unmaintained wiki engine can't handle even moderate read-only loads, with routine bot traffic triggering a DoS of the entire web server. This used to happen about once every couple of months, but the new host has 1/6th of the RAM as the old one, so the DoS threshold happens a lot sooner, sometimes several times a day! Work has been underway to move from the ancient foswiki 1.x instance to the actively-maintained (and much less brain-dead) foswiki 2.x. Thanks to many architectural improvements it should be able to handle _far_ better loads. Or so we hope. The main thing in the way of just swithing to the new wiki is that the theme still needs porting. And the fact that I'm writing this from the middle of Ocala National Forest. On Monday I intend to flip the switch to the new wiki, clean up any lingering mess, and resume working on the theme. In the mean time I made a config change to the www server that will hurt the wiki responsiveness but should keep it from completely DoSing the rest of the www site. I hope. There's always something, eh? - Solomon -- Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp) _at_pizza:shaftnet dot org (matrix) High Springs, FL speachy (libra.chat) -- Unsubscribe: http://lists.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.html
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