slow osmocom website

[Nico Golde]

Hi,
* Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org> [2013-01-21 21:45]:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 05:01:27AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> > > Patches for the robots.txt are welcome.
> > 
> > If not already done then I recommend moving all Trac databases off
> > the toy SQLite database to MariaDB, Postgres or such.
> > 
> > Getting rid of SQLite has significant impact on popular Trac
> > instances, and makes running the database on a separate machine
> > really easy, which further distributes the load.
> 
> We can do that, but I think the main issue is that the machine is just
> overloaded with too many VMs, so high load on one of the VMs will have a
> significant impact on others.  Doing an upgrade / re-organization is on
> my todo list, but it is a very low priority item, as the slow web site
> is mostly a problem of convenience, and not an urgent issue at this point.

I agree with Peter here and think this is not only about 
convenience. As most of the active developers rarely use the 
website I would assume, this is mostly about our public face 
to the community and people who are interested in the 
project and I think this is important. I would argue that
this isn't a super high priority item, but given the time
these problems exist, I think we should start working on that.

I'm also willing to give a helping hand here if needed.

Cheers
Nico