Server packed up?
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel"
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Is it true that the wiki has become so very popular?
Or is it a DoS attack? Skynet taking over.
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Rocky J Squirrel
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Steve Williams
>The wiki server seems to be packed up.
I don't think it was down for long. I can see something very odd in
the server utilization around the time of your message, but I can't
tell exactly what happened.
A DOS attack is not a bad guess. The email queues spiked around that time.
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel"
patches up to date. Register a .ch ccTLD. That'll piss 'em off.
We will prevail.
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Rocky J Squirrel
Steve Williams
around caching. None of the sites are so popular that they need
careful caching, but it's an opportunity to learn more about it.
For the Vanagon wiki, in particular, I've just changed the way it
stores browser sessions. Before, it stored sessions in temporary
files on the server's disk. Now, it stores them in memory, more
precisely in memcached running on the same server as the web server.
The sessions should be as persistent as before, except when memcached
or the server is rebooted, which should be rare.
So if you notice that you're getting logged out frequently, even
though you've checked the "remember me" box, let me know.
I've also tweaked the HTTP headers to get web browsers to cache more
stuff longer. And I turned on compression, so some pages may load
more quickly, especially on slow connections.
I've also been experimenting with Amazon Cloudfront. Really
interesting stuff, but I'm not actively using it yet.