[clue] Website testing

[David L. Willson]

What sort of hardware issue? The site seems to be up, to me. Page changes are taking 5-8 seconds.

Is there some page-caching we could do to improve that? I'm ~not~ a LAMP specialist, but it seems like there would be.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shawn Perry" <shawn at redmop.com>
> To: "CLUE's mailing list" <clue at cluedenver.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 1:14:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [clue] Website testing
> 
> 
> I checked with my hosting service (bluehost). They are having a
> hardware issue. An admin is onsite right now fixing it.
> 
> 
> Shawn T Perry
> Red Mop Computing Services
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> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Lorin Ricker < Lorin at rickernet.us >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> I hammered & clicked on the new site from about 12:50 to 1:00pm --
> Noticed that it "felt" a bit slower than my first attempts late last
> night (at around 10:30pm), but certainly within my own tolerance...
> pages were loading within 1-to-2 seconds easily.
> 
> I also note that my own email ISP (Godaddy) is timing out SMTP when
> I'm
> sending/replying to emails right now -- including this very message
> --
> so we could be seeing some overall regional network congestion during
> this testing period in question.
> 
> Don't be too fast to throw this baby out with its bathwater...
> there's a
> lot of fine work & effort that have gone into this Drupal-based
> website
> facelift, and I think that it's worth investing in for the next while
> to
> make it work well and keep it working as a CLUE/Denver resource.
> 
> Again, thanks to all who've contributed time & treasure so far!
> best regards,
> -- Lorin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 06/06/2011 10:57 PM, David L. Willson wrote:
> > Please try to load up the website tomorrow from noon to 1PM. Use a
> > script if you like, or just your clicking fingers.
> > 
> > Shawn will probably be able to monitor the serverat that time, and
> > this should generate about as much simultaneous traffic as we might
> > reasonably expect anytime soon.
> > 
> > If it survives that hit, and stays up for a week afterward, it's
> > almost certainly reliable enough for our purposes.
> > 
> > I'd like to ask, and this is a new request, that we don't cut in
> > the
> > new DNS record until daily backups have succeeded for three days
> > without administrative assistance, and at least three people known
> > to
> > the list have enough access to the server to take care of business
> > if
> > things go to Heck. (Shawn, Dennis, and Dave A, perhaps?)
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