Hi Taco !
Thanks, Taco, for your quick answer ! The server was already very slow
before Christmas
(when searching for documents on ConTeXt Garden), and that was before it
crashed.
There should be a law to prevent hardware failures during the holidays!
If you need any equipment (hardware), please let us know.
Best//JP
Le 05/01/2026 à 10:13, Taco Hoekwater a écrit :
Hi all,
The web server is back now. Of course it managed to crash while I was
vacationing.
Best wishes,
Taco
On 5 Jan 2026, at 08:09, Henning Hraban Ramm <[email protected]> wrote:
Am 05.01.26 um 06:42 schrieb Max Chernoff via ntg-context:
Probably the easiest solution would be to just have a fully-static site
that's automatically updated once a week or so by using something like
this
https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner
Yes, also IMO hosting a static ZIM container makes the most sense.
I looked into the options for Mediawiki mirroring, and this is reasonably easy
and doesn’t require a strong server.
Editing can wait for a week, lookup shouldn’t.
I think that the only options to allow writes anywhere are for all the
systems to use the same database (bringing us back to a single point of
failure), to allow writes to different mirrors to get out of sync (which
seems like a terrible idea), or to set up some complex
clustering/sharding scheme (which sounds much too complicated). So I
think that having the mirrors be read-only is the only feasible
solution, which is probably for the best, since I'd personally much
rather just host a bunch of static pages than to run a database and a
bunch of other software.
It’s possible to run Mediawiki over a whole farm of servers (Wikipedia had 390 a few
years ago), and the "single database" can also be spread well (I managed a
MySQL master-slave setup around 2005…), but I don’t think that’s necessary. I’d also
avoid running ConTeXt “in the open” like behind the wiki (and for COW).
Hraban
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