Hi Tony,
I don't know; that strikes me as overkill. We do have rack space for more servers, so we certainly could drop more in; if someone wants to buy 1U servers, we can put those in.
But it seems like adding additional admin work in response to a single software glitch is a mistake. I think we should focus on finding and fixing this bug. It's got to be simple; something is making Apache run crazy, and we should stop it.
I suppose we could start running separate Apache images on the one server - one for bugs, one for the appdb, and so on; that might help us figure out which one is going crazy faster. But I think Jer has a few other angles of attack on this as well...
Cheers,
Jeremy
Tony Lambregts wrote:
What would it take (how much would it cost us) to move the www.winehq.org site to another server?
We have had this problem for a while now (over a week) that our main site has been sporaticly unavailable. I appreciate all the work Jeremy Newman has put into trying to find the problem but I think that having all of websites (excepting the wiki) on one box is a bad idea in the long run. I think that we should dedicate a box to www.winehq.org since having a uninterupted presence on the web is critical to Wine's image.
Right now we host quite a number of different services on the one box. Ideally we could have a redundant/mirrored solution but that is not esential at this point.
This is my list in order of importance (wiki is not on this list because it is already on a separate box)
Git - Essential service (easy to miror) www.winehq.org - critical to our image (easy to mirror ???) mysql - critical to appdb and bugzilla (cannot mirror effectively) bugs.winehq.org - important to fixing bugs ;^) (hard to mirror) appdb.winehq.org - userland mostly. ( yes it's important but not critical) (hard to miror) mailing lists archives - we already have redundancy here. cvs - needed for web site development and people not converted to git (easy to mirror)
Buying an used box for $500-1000(us) and dedicating it to www.winehq.org is one option I see (and am willing to help pay for). I am sure there are other options but I wanted to at least open the dicussion.
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Tony Lambregts