On 05/04/2012 06:40 PM, Jeremy Warding wrote:
Hi,
This is my first time writing to the list. I've noticed that the
www.lyx.org <http://www.lyx.org> and wiki.lyx.org
<http://wiki.lyx.org> websites are often down. I've done some
searching on this list and the developers list and the most common
response to reports of "the website is down" is: "It's back up now".
I'm very curious why this happens. I don't know much at all about
servers. Is it because of increased traffic? Is it because LyX does
not get enough donations?
We recently moved to a new server. It seems to have been pretty reliable
so far, though there have been a couple times when it just went silent,
and it wasn't clear why. The other day, there was some problem on the
server that I fixed, but I'm not sure exactly what it was, other than
that there were bazillions of httpd processes eating all the server's CPU.
What's true is that LyX is community supported. It always will be. If
people think the software stinks because sometimes the website is down,
then I'm not sure there is much we can do.
Richard
