Hi Rob, everyone,

There have been persistent load problems on the server running
WhatDoTheyKnow which the team have been working intermittently to fight for
a while now.

The reason we've not succeeded yet has been a) the lack of a staging server
containing a complete copy of the database to work on and b) a lack of
developer time due to a mixture of paternity leave and commercial deadlines.

I know it isn't acceptable to have one of our most important sites going up
and down like this, but we remain resource constrained. I am glad to say
that in about 7 days from now we'll be able to have both Robin Houston and
Seb Bacon working on this together, with a proper staging server, at which
point I have high hopes that WhatDoTheyKnow will start to tick over in a
smoother fashion.

Sorry again,

Tom
On Nov 30, 2011 8:36 AM, "Rob McKinnon" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi mySociety team,
>
> WhatDoTheyKnow.com was not responding earlier this morning - it was
> returning a 503 Service Unavailable response.
>
> In the last few weeks, I've noticed that pages from WhatDoTheyKnow.com
> have been slow, and that site search has been slow. I hope you have
> resources to take a look at this and that the fix isn't too difficult.
>
> You'll be pleased to hear that WhosLobbying.com pages for public
> authorities have a "make a Freedom of Information request" link to
> each authority's WhatDoTheyKnow page. We've got about 400 public
> authorities matched so far.
>
> You can see some lobbying activity of public authorities here:
> http://whoslobbying.com/uk/public_authorities
>
> cheers,
> Rob
>
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