Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > >>To most folks around here, one more box wouldn't make a real dent in >>their admin load. I think the biggest factor is going to be how long >>it will take before we can afford to buy a server sufficient to the >>task. Having recently purchased a dual dual-core AMD64 system for a >>customer, I'll tell you right now they're not cheap. We speced ours >>out at around $6k. I can provide exact specs if needed. >> >> > >i'm seeing servers going from 1.5-3k for something reasonable - not top of the >line - but possibly what we could want. this is more the debate at the moment. >what do we need, what can we live with, and what can we actually afford. >thispart of things has been skipped a bit so far - as i think we still need to >debate the worthiness of getting a box at all, but the offer is pretty much on >the table form osuosl, so if we fill out end of things - we should be golden. > > FYI, I've put in a request to Sun for 2 servers. They may be able to give us systems or they might not, budgets are tight over there right now and its not so easy to just hand out boxes, but I can guarrentee that they are going to try. Currently I'm asking for a pair of dual-core X4200 Sun servers. We'll see what happens, no promises.
>>>"enlightenment.org is slow" - We can't do much - It's hosted on >>>sf.net and hoevere fast it is - is how fast e.org will be. If we run >>>our own server we have a bit more control - but also we have fewer >>>freidns to help push up the service quality of the network >>>overall. We likely can't be putting sites everywhere (in the USA, >>>UK, Japan, China, India, etc.). We could definitely have the option >>>of local mirrors for speedier access in the future. Though I say I >>>am in Japan and enlightenment.org isn't too bad. Maybe you forget >>>the days of 14.4k modems... :) >>> >>> >>If we can pull together enough servers, I think we can put a real dent >>in performance issues, but mirroring a CMS can get real ugly. Perhaps >>HandyAndE can chime in here with some suggestions on how scaleable his >>CMS is. >> >> > >his cms should be the most scalable for mirroring as its all pre-compiled html >pages thus just rsyncing the output dir will work wonders. :) > > I don't know if this'll turn into a fight or not, I don't want it too... but I'd suggest that we start considering something other than XSM. I agree that when it comes to mirroring, XSM is the superior solution, given its design, mirroring is a complete non-issue, unlike other CMS's that would require us to rsync' htdocs/ to another site. However, XSM has signicantly slowed the ability for E.org to be worked on. Updates take 5-10 minutes and the interface is sluggish. I'd personally like to either consider moving to Drupal (like Edevelop.org) or going back to a non-CMS SCM (CVS web/) managed site. Thoughts? benr. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
