[Qgis-developer] Cloudflare for qgis.org sites

[Etienne Tourigny]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/10/29 Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The recent downtime of qgis.org sites reminds me of several corporate
>> websites I've worked with that, due to design requirements, needed to
>> remain with older server software and code base. The older sites could
>> not handle the bot traffic, and needed extra up-front security and a
>> cdn system to remain viable as their traffic grew.
>>
>> I've been involved with Cloudflare.com shortly after its inception
>
>
> Hi,
>
> It sounds very very interesting but unfortunately they run closed
> source proprietary software, even if is SAAS I would stay away from
> that.
>
> Does anything similar exists in the FOSS world?
>
> BTW, yesterday I saw from "top" peaks of 6 to 12 load average,
> probably caused by a combination of C++ code compilation, dpkg
> packaging, a couple of bots indexing content and ruby/python web apps
> running, probably too much for a VPS, but the website has been running
> without major downtimes during the past 2 years.
>
> Let's see if we can do some further caching/optimization and if the
> renice of packaging has any effect. If the problem persists we must
> obviously find a solution.

it might help to run any non-critical processes with nice and ionice like this:

nice -n 19 ionice -c 3 <whatever>

>
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> Alessandro Pasotti
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