Re: LilyPond.org down?

[David Kastrup]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup writes:
>
>> It would seem like the NSA can't keep up with filtering all our
>> traffic.  At least I see
>>
>>     Site currently down due to high traffic
>>
>> And subpages like www.lilypond.org/gub/ are 404.
>
> Apparently we are creating the high traffic ourselves.
>
>    Jullie blazen momenteel de webserver op, omdat er aldoor grote
>    bestanden gedownload worden die ook aldoor gezipped worden. Daardoor
>    loopt de tmp vol. Kunnen jullie dat wijzigen?
>
>    You are blowing up the webserver, by many large files dowloads
>    that are also getting zipped.  This fills up /tmp.  Please fix.
>
> Did anything major change, recently?  Also, the webmask of files
> in website/ is still wrong (I asked more than once about this);
> files are not lilypond-group writable.

It would be interesting to see what kind of files are filling up /tmp.
I can't think of significantly offered zipped files, so I'd guess that
some crawler just tries them for bandwidth's sake and is happy to find
them workable.  Maybe we should disable compression?

-- 
David Kastrup