On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 07:35:11PM +0000, AlCaponeJr via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Friday, 5 October 2018 at 16:11:05 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 11:51:02PM +0000, Vladimir Panteleev via > > Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] > > > Yeah, painfully aware. I've been trying a bunch of different > > > things all day, and looks like things are back under control now. > > > I think the metal is reaching its limit, or there's just too much > > > stuff running on the machine - it continued to be really slow even > > > 10 minutes after I completely stopped the forum process. > > > > Maybe it's time for the Foundation to fund dedicated hardware for > > running the forum software? If we're reaching the limit of the > > hardware, there's not much else that can be done. [...] > Why not use some Cloud Services instead of worrying about hardware? [...]
Yes, and have it go down when things like the infamous AWS Outage happens. Centralization is evil. (But of course, that still beats the status quo of a dedicated server that's overloaded and resulting in poor service... so you may have a point. :-P) T -- Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation: I have preferences. You have biases. He/She has prejudices. -- Gene Wirchenko