Am 14.04.2013 14:47, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo):

> Butch Bustria, 14/04/2013 14:21:
>> The registration website crashed in time for the last day of "Early Bird
>> Registration"
>
> Yes, the centralnotice yesterday killed the site and was took down.

I am really disappointed by this.
It should be obvious to everyone that a single server cannot cope with a
centralnotice on Wikimedia projects, served by 300+ servers.

I have this discussions almost every month. Once WMIN is abusing the
server, another time WLM, this time Wikimania. Each and every time
nobody even thought a second to at least notify the sponsor of the
server before doing something like this.

And I say this again and again every time, to no avail.

The problem can be avoided so easily - using a static HTML landing page
(even PHP should work, just avoid any database transactions on the
landing page) and talk before you do something. I was away for a few
days (Jury meeting in London, weekend) and did not use a computer for
two days, hence I could not see or react to anything. If I knew, I
would've giving some hints beforehand and made sure I am monitoring the
situation closely during that time.

/Manuel
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