Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Website is very unresponsive

[Marcus Moeller]

Am 06.10.2015 um 21:23 schrieb address@hidden:
> Op Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:01:20 +0200
> schreef Stig Atle Steffensen <address@hidden>:
> 
>> http://gnewsense.org/ is very very slow and unresponsive.
>> Is there something that can be done with that?
> 
> I plan to do an upgrade next weekend that will hopefully improve things.
> 
>> Is the site running on a dedicated server or vps? (just curious).
> 
> VPS
> 
>> Is there anything I or others can do to help with the issue?
>> (mirror things, or help in other ways?)
> 
> The wiki has a lot of spam accounts now. I'm not sure, but this might be
> a factor in the slowness. A cleanup would be nice in any case, e.g.
> deleting all accounts that have made no edits and were created more
> than 1 year ago. Last time I checked there was no readily available
> script to do this. Any volunteers to take this on?

Hmm, have you ever checked if the server is used to send out spam? Maybe
due to a bug in a web form? I had those kind of issues with MediaGoblin
which had/has an ugly bug, letting the form being used for spamming. I
was able to monitor this by taking a look at /var/log/mail.log

Greets
Marcus

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