Subject: Re: Inadequate hosting for www.postgresql.org

From: "Dave Page" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:44:32 -0000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg Bartunov [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: 03 November 2004 01:26
> To: Marc G. Fournier
> Cc: Alexey Borzov; Dave Page; [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Inadequate hosting for www.postgresql.org
> 
> Its interesting to see how webperf.org sees different 
> postgresql.org pages. For example,

<snip stats>

Yes, that is interesting. What's even more interesting is running the
stats on www.postgresql.org/index.php. All of a sudden, it becomes
apparent that the servers isn't doing a bad job serving static HTML,
it's the PHP stuff that's dog slow.

> But, I again want to  stress that current architecture of 
> postgresql.org sites are very-very bad and you will never get 
> nice performance and scalability especially for dynamic sites without:

Agreed, but I think there's a more fundamental problem to fix before
getting down to the level of optimisation you suggest.

Regards, Dave.