On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 21:03 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Admin please check logs for denial of service attack.the website is > anciently designed. Period
What, pray tell, do ancient web design and susceptibility to DoS attacks have to do with one another? Just because the R Project website hasn't lept, both feet, into the web 2.0 era (nor should it) doesn't mean the underlying servers are vulnerable to DoS! The access problems people have described could have been a DoS, or they could have been downtime due to University network upgrades etc, or problems with the servers themselves (relocation, upgrades, maintenance) or power problems. None of which have anything to do with the use of a HTML 4.0 designed website. There are good reasons why the site doesn't use the latest, fancy web tech; improved performance (or reduce need for high powered servers) and as the site is mirrored to many volunteer servers around the world, the low tech reduces the burden on the admins of the mirrors, are just two that come to mind. Could the site do with a graphical spruce-up and removal of frames? Yes, IMHO, but then again I haven't put my money where my mouth is and stepped up to do the work on the CSS and HTML redesign. Much work *has* been done recently to improve the functionality of the R websites, esp on CRAN. Remember that this is all done by a small band of volunteers, who are to be thanked for their time and efforts. Please do not denigrate the works of others with non-constructive criticism, and especially without offers to improve matters. Gavin > > ajay > www.decisionstats.com > > On 8/24/08, Jim Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 00:21 -0700, J Dougherty wrote: > >> Is anyone else encountering trouble viewing the basic www.r-project.org > >> page? > >> Or has it been changed recently so that google hasn't kept up? I find I > >> can > >> access the mirror of the CRAN page at http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/R/, none > >> of > >> the *.org pages. Nor can I jump to the R homepage from the CRAN mirror. > >> > > Yes, I couldn't get cran.r-project.org last night, but thought it was > > just a short downtime. Can't raise it tonight, either. > > > > Jim > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.