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Yesterday it was extremely slow too... I had to wait like 5 hours to download LuaSocket. xD David Burgess wrote: > It is down > >
Leo Cabrera wrote: > Yesterday it was extremely slow too... I had to wait like 5 hours to > download LuaSocket. xD > > David Burgess wrote: >> It is down These troubles continue for a few weeks already. This site represents Lua no less than than the official Lua site, and this situation makes Lua a very bad service. Could you imagine a commercial site in such state? If the site needs new hosting, maybe another lottery could solve the problem? Or some other fundraising means? -- -- Shmuel
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz <at> 013net.net> wrote: > Leo Cabrera wrote: >> >> Yesterday it was extremely slow too... I had to wait like 5 hours to >> download LuaSocket. xD >> >> David Burgess wrote: >>> >>> It is down > > These troubles continue for a few weeks already. This site represents Lua no > less than than the official Lua site, and this situation makes Lua a very > bad service. Could you imagine a commercial site in such state? > > If the site needs new hosting, maybe another lottery could solve the > problem? Or some other fundraising means? Anyone know what kind of bandwidth LuaForge requires? Cheers, -- -- -Patrick Donnelly "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." -Will Durant(Continue reading)
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Patrick Donnelly <batrick.donnelly <at> gmail.com> wrote: >> If the site needs new hosting, maybe another lottery could solve the >> problem? Or some other fundraising means? > > Anyone know what kind of bandwidth LuaForge requires? It's not a hosting/bandwidth problem but an overload of requests on the main server by ill behaved bots. We have being cutting them at robots.txt and IP filters to no avail. We already have a plan to upgrade the hardware and move to virtual server model but yes, fund raising would make all the difference. LuaForge started 4 years ago as a small project and clearly has reached far more users than the hardware and allocated team can take. Note that even after upgrading the hardware we would still face the problem of GForge maintainance. GForge is quite useful but is a huge piece of software and requires a lot of attention on upgrades. If we could get help on this support or financing our current tech guy things would surely get easier for everyone. What LuaForge needs: - Hosting with a reasonable bandwidth (we are currently getting around 20K visits/day and 2K downloads/day) - Hardware or virtual machines for two servers (one for the main site, the other for FTP and user sites) - Debian+GForge support (our current bottleneck in manpower)(Continue reading)
On Oct 5, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Andre Carregal wrote: > What LuaForge needs: > > - Hosting with a reasonable bandwidth (we are currently getting around > 20K visits/day and 2K downloads/day) > - Hardware or virtual machines for two servers (one for the main site, > the other for FTP and user sites) > - Debian+GForge support (our current bottleneck in manpower) > > Any suggestions or offers on these would be really welcome. > > Our current plan of action involves upgrading the main server this > week so at least the bumps should get better. But this will work for a > while, LuaForge is growing steadly, which is great! :o) One potential option would be to put Luaforge on NearlyFreeSpeech.net ... they are very affordable and have great uptime. If one wants to make things even more affordable, one could put a hybrid service using NearlyFreeSpeech.net for the complicated page- code and use Amazon S3 for storage of releases. One would gain the affordable backend code of NearlyFreeSpeech.net and get a dumb/fast data server from S3. Not completely sure on how well GForge would be supported (I'm sure the NearlyFreeSpeech.net guys would be helpful here). Debian, eh... no support there as they use a BSD-based server farm.
Maybe setting up a tarpit scheme to limit demanding users. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking) -----Original Message----- From: lua-bounces <at> bazar2.conectiva.com.br [mailto:lua-bounces <at> bazar2.conectiva.com.br] On Behalf Of Patrick Donnelly Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 1:36 AM To: Lua list Subject: Re: luaforge On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz <at> 013net.net> wrote: > Leo Cabrera wrote: >> >> Yesterday it was extremely slow too... I had to wait like 5 hours to >> download LuaSocket. xD >> >> David Burgess wrote: >>> >>> It is down > > These troubles continue for a few weeks already. This site represents Lua no > less than than the official Lua site, and this situation makes Lua a very > bad service. Could you imagine a commercial site in such state? > > If the site needs new hosting, maybe another lottery could solve the > problem? Or some other fundraising means? Anyone know what kind of bandwidth LuaForge requires?(Continue reading)
David Burgess <dburgess <at> gmail.com> writes: > > It is down > > Its down now also,... Does anyone know what the problem is? some sort of update and/or estimate?
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Petsagourakis George <petsagouris <at> gmail.com> wrote: > Its down now also,... > Does anyone know what the problem is? some sort of update and/or estimate? LuaForge is having surely the worst week in its short history... Apparently we have improved the bot detection and handling (thanks everyone for the suggestions!) but today the DNS service went bananas so the service may be still unavailable for some. The servers are up and running and things should get better as the DNS propagates. For those in need, the IP for www.luaforge.net is 147.65.1.201 (you may want to temporarily add it to your local hosts table). André
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Andre Carregal <carregal <at> fabricadigital.com.br> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Petsagourakis George > <petsagouris <at> gmail.com> wrote: >> Its down now also,... >> Does anyone know what the problem is? some sort of update and/or estimate? OK, it took longer than we would like but things seem to be normal again in LuaForge land. I'd like to thank every LuaForge user for the patience during this week and specially Luís Santos and Fabio Mascarenhas for the help in the final sprint. We still have plans for an upgrade in GForge itself, but it will have to wait a bit more. If there is something out of place let me know please. Thanks again, André
Andre Carregal wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Andre Carregal > <carregal <at> fabricadigital.com.br> wrote: > OK, it took longer than we would like but things seem to be normal > again in LuaForge land. The situation has improved, but still the access to the main page takes some 90 sec. which is hardly normal. -- -- Shmuel
Andre, On top of all the other headaches luaforge has been having, it looks like CVS is down. -- Matt
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Matthew M. Burke <matthew <at> bluedino.net> wrote: > On top of all the other headaches luaforge has been having, it looks like > CVS is down. Apparently Postgres got stuck and took some services with it... can you check again please? Thanks for the warning. André
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