On Aug 14, 2011, at 11:39 AM, drew wrote: > On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 11:18 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: >> On Aug 14, 2011, at 11:06 AM, drew wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 13:37 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:06 PM, drew <d...@baseanswers.com> wrote: > <big snip> > >>> >>> Just hit the templates site and it's back, I would rather we ask the >>> current admin about what, if any, maintenance is needing done on the >>> site, and then we should offer, if it would help, to try and find some >>> volunteer help to get that done, asap. >> >> Here is what an OSUOSL admin said in July when this happened last: >> >>> Looks like varnish died on the machine and I just kicked it. The site(s) >>> should be back online now. >>> >>> The sites have been in an unstable state for quite a while mostly >>> because neither we (OSL) nor Sun/Oracle had time to fix the performance >>> issues both of the sites entails. Couple that with the fact that the >>> machines they power those sites are very underpower considering the load >>> they take. It's gotten so bad that we've turned off notifications >>> because they just go off all the time. >>> >>> What really needs to happen is to have the sites completely >>> re-architected from the ground up with scaling in mind. At least one of >>> the sites is a stock Drupal 5.0 with a very hacked core. I know some >>> Sun/Oracle engineers had been working on fixing that into a Drupal 6 >>> module but I'm not sure where that left off. >>> >>> Anyways, If you would like some more help with how these sites can be >>> fixed moving forward, please let me know. But we are strectched thin for >>> resources. >>> >>> Thanks- >> >> The offer is there. I'll give anyone the admin's email and off the list if >> you want to contact him. >> > Howdy Dave > > Well I'll not be much technical help with Drupal, however I can start by > posting an email to the Apache infra ML and see if maybe there is > someone skilled in the art willing to work with our current admin and > the osu admin. I'll do that in a little bit here, if no one minds.
Ideally someone here on the ML would be a Drupal guru. Regards, Dave
