Hi,

I can offer to host the site or at least a mirror in europe for
free.

We do have a very good connection to internet from university of
erlangen-nuernberg at least for european and I think also american
visitors and we also have a new db-server with lot of cpus and lot
of memory.... which is not the webserver!






am Freitag, 3. Dezember 2004 um 19:33 schrieben Sie:


HB> At 07:44 PM 2/12/2004 -0800, you wrote:

>>firebirdsql.org shares its server with 750 other websites,
>>so getting a faster machine is kinda not doubtful with the
>>current setup, and the slow performance is to be expected.
>>Mirrors would certainly help, but by the time you pay for a
>>few additional hosting services to accomodate the mirrors,
>>a dedicated server might be actually affordable by
>>comparison, and certainly much faster.

HB> What they actually need is a database backend that doesn't crag up under
HB> load. The timeout is happening because the home page has to access the
HB> users database on SF and it's not Firebird. (Not sure if it's in DB2 yet or
HB> they are still running the user database with MySQL...)

HB> Often a Refresh will get you into the queue; but, if you can see the menus
HB> then you can access the rest of the site. AFAIR, the home page is the only
HB> one currently that has to access the database. It could be just a
HB> transient problem as SF has been moving a lot of stuff onto new servers lately.

HB> Helen




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Bjoern

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