John Porter wrote:
>
> Yes; but I'm not talking about the freshness, mainly.
> I'm talking about the fact that the site is a dog.
> As in, dog slow. The page layout "design" is bletcherous,
> but it wouldn't bother me so much if it would load in a snappy
> manner. That box has always been slow. www.perl.com should
> be transplanted to new hardware. Or maybe it's the pipe (or
> should I say pipecleaner?) it's hanging from; I can't tell.
> It's one or the other.
I too have noticed that www.perl.com sometimes dies. I recall one
time where I couldn't ping www.perl.com while I was at work on
O'Reilly's internal network.
There is a lot of talk and even some action about upgrading
some of the web servers at O'Reilly. You'd be amazed what
www.oreilly.com runs on.
Although O'Reilly is trying to repurpose itself, most of company
is focused on book production. It doesn't run like a dot-com
whose existence depends on its website. Again, I believe there
are things afoot to change this.
As for the design, I would like a slashdot-like option of 'lite'
mode where the page is served with minimal graphics and HTML.
Better still, you can use the RDF file to look at the current
stories. Slashdot and Meerkat (www.oreillynet.com/meerkat)
both use www.perl.com's RDF news feed.
For the record, www.perl.com is hosted at an ISP in California
called sonic.net, who does have multiple T1 access to the net.
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