On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Elio Tondo wrote: > Jonathan Roberts wrote: > > > Actually, has anyone considered that the site becoming unresponsive > > for a while could have reduced the number of people digging? There was > > this /. comment: "provided by google since Fedora's server is > > overloaded right now)" I don't know how long this lasted for or > > anything, but its a possible explanation? > > Probably. I already noticed very long response times in the last few weeks; > this happens often but not always, and looks like some sort of server > overload. By the way, I take the occasion for introducing myself after I > joined the Ambassadors group. You can find some information about me here: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ElioTondo and even if you can see that I'm > definitely older than the average Fedora contributor, I share with you the > same commitment to the success of this wonderful distribution. I decided to > join the Ambassadors group because I will probably have chances in the near > future to promote OSS and specifically Linux, and I want to try to contribute > to Fedora success. As an example, I am consulting for a company doing > high-volume courseware and I am currently pushing towards using Fedora as the > "example distro" in the Linux section of a general purpose IT course they are > designing right now, and I will speak at an OSS conference in the next months, > organized by Mensa Italy http://mensa.it/ and Consip, a company of the Italian > Ministry of Finance http://www.consip.it/ (and hopefully in other events > later). > > Coming back to the performance issues, I just had a 35s (!) response time when > going from my Wiki page through the link at the bottom to > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CategoryAmbassadorsItaly (the same time a few > minutes ago); then I tried to go to the category home page > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CategoryHomepage and I had to stop the browser > after two minutes (!!); then I retried and reached the page after 50 seconds. > Actually it looks like the Wiki is the problem, since the home page > http://fedoraproject.org/ is loaded quickly, but trying to go to any Wiki page > takes often around 30s or more (sometimes it times out, sometimes I get also > an Internal server error). > > I think that these response times can be discouraging for users trying to get > information about Fedora, and any effort aimed to understand and fix the > problem will enhance Fedora visibility. BTW, I just tried the Ubuntu site (I > don't like Ubuntu and it's a long time since my last visit there) and I found > it lightning fast. I think that Fedora deserves more infrastructure power to > avoid being considered a poorly performing distro. > The wiki shouldn't be used to get information to end users. Use the fedoraproject.org/ (no /wiki) or docs if you have something to say to end users. Our site is also lightning fast, just not Moin. -Mike -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
